Reddit reviews Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music (Music / Culture)
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Depends on what sort of rep you're in to (into?). I read a lot of popular music scholarship. These are books that I have either read or am going to read, in no particular order:
Brad Osborn - Everything in its Right Place: Analyzing Radiohead
Robert Walser - Running with the Devil:Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music
Walter Everett - The Foundations of Rock
Walter Everett - The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul, Revolver through the Anthology
† Understanding Rock: Essays in Musical Analysis, ed. John Covach and Graeme Boone
Richard Middleton - Studying Popular Music
Allan Moore - Song Means:Analysing and Interpreting Recorded Popular Song
†Analyzing Popular Music, ed. Allan Moore
† = A bunch of essays crammed into a book. These are nice because you can read a 20-50 page study on a topic and move on.
I'll recommend these as more general reading, geared toward classical music but useful in other styles as well:
William Caplin - Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven (Every researcher in the field knows or should know this one. I would also recommend Hepokoski and Darcy - Elements of Sonata Theory, which is the other big form book, but it is a veritable tome and hardly light reading. Not that much of what I've recommended is very light.)
Janet Schmalfeldt - In the Process of Becoming:Analytic and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Music (I haven't read this yet, but it's in the same universe of form studies as the above.)
Kofi Agawu - Music as Discourse: Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music (Agawu has written a lot on various topics and should be on your radar.)
Alfred Mann - The Study of Fugue (Broken up into two parts: part 1 is a history of fugue, part 2 is about fugal technique.)
I'll point you toward this one since it is totally awesome and helped me to understand medieval liturgical music theory and culture (though you might find yourself lost if you are not already familiar with some of the concepts):
Anna Maria Busse Berger - Medieval Music and the Art of Memory
You might also consider ordering a hard copy of some journal issues, as these can be quite compact and give you a lot of breadth.
Journal of Music Theory (JMT)
Music Theory Spectrum (MTS)
I personally recommend getting your ass to the library or bookstore and getting two very interesting books:
Running With the Devil: Power, Gender and Madness in Heavy Metal Music by Robert Walser
Heavy Metal: The Music and its Culture by Deena Weinstein
Both are interesting reads and Walser's in particular has a section which memorably compares a particular guitar solo to a Vivaldi violin cadenza... very interesting.
I'm not really much of a death metal person so I can't recommend you anything in the way of bands but the other people who commented sound like they know their shit. :)
Not sociology, but definitely ethnographic: http://www.amazon.com/Running-Devil-Gender-Madness-Culture/dp/0819562602
Not about black metal, but a good read if you are interested in the topic.
I actually read it in a book by Robert Walser called Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music. From what I recall, the book was quite good, though it was 20 years ago that I read it so I'm not sure what I would think about it now (I'm a lot more skeptical of social theory than I was then given its current state as an academic discipline). I remember especially liking the "high culture" vs "low culture" discussions, and the "cross cultural juxtaposition" phrase was used when he noted similarities between heavy metal and opera. I think he also said that the method is called different things by different people, so maybe this description is his own and not too common. He might even be the originator. I didn't invent it though, unfortunately.
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