Female Leadership in Serbian Metal Music. Frontwomen at the Crossroads of Visibility, Genre and Voice
| Autor: | Bojana Radovanovic |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Nenić, Iva, Cimardi, Linda |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | Musik und Klangkultur ISBN: 9783837665468 Women's Leadership in Music ISBN: 9783839465462 Women's Leadership in Music: Modes, Legacies, Alliances |
| DOI: | 10.14361/9783839465462-015 |
| Popis: | Metal music is known for being, in the words of sociologist Deena Weinstein (2000: 134), a genre primarily designed “(...) of, by, and for males”. Although its foundational postulates, sound and behavior are traditionally seen as masculine, this genre has been also a place for subversion of the masculine and transgression into androgyny and femininity. Since its inception in the 1970s, metal offered a myriad of possibilities for male performers. It is, thus, not surprising that during the first several decades of the genre’s development, women were mainly part of the audience or male musicians’ muses. This trend is more noticeably being challenged in the last two decades. Women are taking on not only the role of band vocalists (which is traditionally expected), but also the symbolic leadership as guitarplayersand other instrumentalists. This chapter sheds light on the historical circumstances and characteristics of female leadership in Serbian metal, focusing on the development of metal subgenres and their relationship to women in the local and international context. Since female roles in metal bands are still, by and large, the ones of vocalists, this chapter also gives insights into the development of female voice in metal – from mainstream clean and operatic singing in symphonic metal to the technically extended vocals of extreme metal. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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