Jesse Kavadlo

Rock of Pages (MP3-Download)

The Literary Tradition of 1980s Heavy Metal Ungekürzte Lesung. 733 Min.
Sprecher: Ragland, Christopher

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Produktbeschreibung

Bloomsbury presents Rock of Pages by Jesse Kavadlo, read by Christopher Ragland. Rock of Pages provides contexts and close readings of 1980s heavy metal with forty years of hindsight, drawing upon analytical frameworks usually associated with literature and literary studies. Based on decades of work as a professor of literature and as a musician, Jesse Kavadlo analyzes the ways in which 1980s heavy metal aligns with and develops many of the themes prevalent in the canon of literature. In doing so, the book examines some of the contexts of 1980s heavy metal, including Cold War, the rise of MTV, and the formation of the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) and subsequent congressional hearings. Rock of Pages takes the PMRC's own objections to heavy metal and uses them as titles and topics to analyze the intersections between heavy metal and literature: representations of violence, but the connected concerns about justice; images of substance abuse, and the interrelated issues of obsession, madness, suicidal ideation; sex and love, with, concomitantly, representations of women and relationships between men and women; and the references to the occult, with the depictions of Satan, the afterlife, and morality on earth itself. In doing so, the book suggests that 1980s heavy metal displayed more artistry and intelligence than people imagine, but that literature is rebellious and subversive as well.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216386148
• Artikelnr.: 75741278

Autorenporträt

Jesse Kavadlo is Professor of English and Humanities at Maryville University of St. Louis, USA, where he teaches a variety of classes about literature and culture. He has published four books, over thirty academic articles and book chapters, and contributes to the online magazine PopMatters. Jesse is also the lead guitarist in Top Gunz: The St. Louis ‘80’s Party Rock Experience, playing under the name Dr. NoiZe.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: My Double Life
Introduction: Won't Somebody Please think of the Children?
1. Nothing. But: A Good Time? heavy Metal, the Cold War, and the Long 1980s
2. V for Violence
3. DA for Drugs and Alcohol
4. X for Sexually Explicit
5. O for Occult
An Ode to Guitar Solos
Conclusion: It's Been a Long Time Since I Rock-and-Rolled
Notes
Index

Rezensionen

This witty, engaging, yet erudite study plumbs metal's relationships with its literary forebears to prove that this often-dismissed genre rewards close reading and carries significant social implications. With a light touch, Kavadlo shows that heavy metal offers more than just a good time.