Heavy Metal - Controversies and Countercultures - Titus Hjelm
Dworkin’s nightmare: Porngrind as the sound of feminist fears
Heavy Metal - Controversies and Countercultures - Titus Hjelm
Lee Barron [+]
Northumbria University
Lee Barron is a senior lecturer in Media and Communication at Northumbria University. His main research and teaching interests are in the areas of cultural theory,
media and popular culture. His writings have appeared in journals such as Fashion Theory, The Journal of Popular Culture and International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music.
Description
This chapter explores the relationship between extreme metal and gender, and specifically the sexual representation of women in a relatively obscure ‘underground’ metal subgenre that developed in the 1990s—porngrind.