Teaching Metal
Professor Bryan A Bardine editor Kevin Ebert editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:15th Apr '27
£85.00
This title is due to be published on 15th April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A field-expanding exploration of how to teach the music and culture of Metal, not just in the music classroom but across disciplines.
This is the first book to create a space for college instructors to teach Metal music and culture across multiple disciplines. It collects sixteen teachers’ innovative pedagogical strategies, from English, History, and Religion to Engineering and Media Communication Studies.
Each chapter takes a unique approach to teaching metal, including how it can be used to create academic freedom in the classroom, how to untangle its sonic complexity, how it can inform and be informed by other disciplines, and even how to sneak it into a curriculum. They also touch on core themes from both musical and non-musical disciplines, ranging from rhyme and meter to storytelling, politics and medievalism, tackling some of the challenges inherent in this field such as the role of women and separating the art from the artist. Metal Studies is still an emerging field, but this book is a pioneering effort to spotlight its value to the teaching process and interdisciplinary pedagogy.
'This book offers diverse perspectives on incorporating heavy metal into teaching various academic subjects. The authors connect metal music to multiple disciplines, broadening views of its pedagogical potential across cultural contexts. Practical chapters also provide valuable insights for many educators. Ultimately, the book highlights heavy metal’s capacity to inspire rethinking of education, showing that it can open doors for a wide range of learners. Any teacher interested in heavy metal would benefit from reading it.' * Kristian Wahlström, PhD; professional electric guitarist, music pedagogue, researcher *
'Teaching Metal is a wonderfully informative look at how metal can be interpreted beyond stages and stereos. This book validates how far metal has come from its status as a pariah genre, while also showcasing how broad the field of Metal Studies has grown. From philosophy, language arts, religious studies, sociology, history, musicology, composition, and even engineering, these essays cover multitudes. Teaching Metal is bound to be the “go-to” for anyone ready to introduce metal into the classroom.' * Edward Banchs, freelance writer and an independent scholar, USA *
ISBN: 9798216373186
Dimensions: unknown
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304 pages