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'A cockroach preserved in amber': the significance of class in critics' representations of heavy metal music and its fans

The Sociological review (Keele), 2014-11, Vol.62 (4), p.719-741 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2014 The Editorial Board of ;2014 The Authors. © 2014 The Editorial Board of ;Copyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Nov 2014 ;ISSN: 0038-0261 ;EISSN: 1467-954X ;DOI: 10.1111/1467-954X.12181 ;CODEN: SORVA4

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  • Title:
    'A cockroach preserved in amber': the significance of class in critics' representations of heavy metal music and its fans
  • Author: Brown, Andy R. ; Griffin, Christine
  • Subjects: Bourdieu, Pierre ; Classification ; constitutive limit ; Cultural differentiation ; Discourse ; Discourse analysis ; heavy metal ; Heavy metal music ; Heterosexuality ; Heterosexuals ; inscription ; Journalism ; Markets ; masculine excess ; Masculinity ; Mass Media Images ; Metals ; Middle Class ; Music ; Musical culture ; neo-liberal subject ; Qualitative Methods ; Representation ; Social Class ; Sociology ; symbolic violence ; Taste ; United Kingdom ; Values ; Whites ; Working Class
  • Is Part Of: The Sociological review (Keele), 2014-11, Vol.62 (4), p.719-741
  • Description: In this paper we engage with new cultural theories of class that have identified media representations of ‘excessive’ white heterosexual working-class femininity as a ‘constitutive limit’ of incorporation into dominant (middle-class) modes of neoliberal subjectivity and Bourdieu's thesis that classification is a form of symbolic violence that constitutes both the classifier and the classified. However, what we explore are the implications of such arguments for those modes of white heterosexual working-class masculinity that continue to reproduce themselves in forms of overtly masculinist popular culture. We do so through a critical examination of the symbolic representation of the genre of heavy metal music within contemporary music journalism. Employing a version of critical discourse analysis, we offer an analysis of representative reviews, derived from a qualitative sample of the UK music magazine, New Musical Express (1999–2008). This weekly title, historically associated with the ideals of the ‘counter culture’, now offers leadership of musical tastes in an increasingly segmented, niche-oriented marketplace. Deploying a refined model of the inscription process outlined by Skeggs, our analysis demonstrates how contemporary music criticism symbolically attaches negative attributes and forms of personhood to the working-class male bodies identified with heavy metal culture and its audience, allowing dominant middle-class modes of cultural authority to be inscribed within matters of musical taste and distinction.
  • Publisher: London, England: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0038-0261
    EISSN: 1467-954X
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-954X.12181
    CODEN: SORVA4
  • Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection
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