Damage Incorporated: Metallica and the Production of Musical Identity [Hardcover]

Damage Incorporated is the first book about the legendary heavy metal band Metallica that provides a detailed exploration of the groups music and its place within the wider popular music landscape. Written with a broad readership in mind, it offers an interdisciplinary study that incorporates a range of topics which intersect with the bands music and cultural influence. For students of popular culture, mass media, and music, Damage Incorporated will be necessary reading, and sets a new standard for the study and exploration of metal within the field of popular music studies.

Damage Incorporated is the first book about the legendary heavy metal band Metallica that provides a detailed exploration of the groups music and its place within the wider popular music landscape. Written with a broad readership in mind, it offers an interdisciplinary study that incorporates a range of topics which intersect with the bands music and cultural influence. For students of popular culture, mass media, and music, Damage Incorporated will be necessary reading, and sets a new standard for the study and exploration of metal within the field of popular music studies.

Glenn T. Pillsbury is a recent Ph.D. in Musicology from UCLA and a rising star in the field of popular music studies. He is the author of the Metallica chapter in the Encyclopedia Britannica, a founding member of the editorial board of the online music journal ECHO, and a regular presenter of papers at major scholarly meetings in music and the arts.Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction I. Thrashing All Around Rhythm, the Body, and the Genre of Thrash Metal II. Death Greets Me Warm The Fade to Black Paradigm III. Thinking Man's Metal Whiteness, Detachment, and the Performance of Musical Complexity IV. The Road and the Mode Musical Tourism and Ethnicity Roaming V. Shape Shift, Mutiny in the Air The Sell-Out Question and Popularl“.