Format:
1 Online-Ressource (152 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781501354410
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9781501354397
Series Statement:
33 1/3 Europe
Content:
"Upon its release, Don't Break the Oath charted fifth on the official British heavy metal album list and was supported by a two month long sold-out American tour in early 1985. The band's controversial stage appearance with burning crosses, a microphone stand formed as a cross made of two human leg bones, as well as other blasphemous rituals attracted the attention of the then newly formed PRMC (Parental Resource Music Center) committee, ironically reassuring the band its position on the charts. But though the album was hugely popular in the anglophone metal scene, it was conceived in peripheral Denmark. This book discusses the relationship between center and periphery. It juxtaposes the Anglophone reticent of heavy metal with the rather marginalized location of Copenhagen, and examines Mercyful Fate's relation to the Nordic region more generally. It also takes a close look at the methods involved in the production of King Diamond's vocals, and emphasizes the role of the vocalist as just as an important part of the over-all soundscape as the instrumental contributions."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Tracklisting -- A note to the reader -- 1. Introduction: A broken yet completed circle -- 2. Sounds, atmospheres and 43 minutes of not breaking the Oath -- 3. The satanic endeavors: Intentional transgressions and antinomian discourses -- 4. Diabolus in musica and other musical modes of symbolic Satanism -- 5. Unmasking the masks of masculinities: (Dis)appearances of the paint mask -- 6. Queer-Satanism galore: Otherings of the Oath -- 7. Conclusion: Rewriting the Heavy Metal canon of hegemonic masculinity -- Notes References -- Index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501354373
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501354380
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781501354373
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781501354410
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