Deena Weinstein

Deena Weinstein (born March 15, 1943) is a professor of sociology at DePaul University whose research focuses on popular culture. She is particularly well known for her research on heavy metal music, as she has published two books on the genre: Heavy Metal: A Cultural Sociology (1991)[1] and Heavy Metal: The Music and Its Culture (2009).[2] Because of her research on heavy metal, Weinstein was featured in the 2005 documentary Metal: A Headbanger's Journey and the later Metal Evolution.

Career

Weinstein argues that the "fundamental ceremony" in metal is the live concert (shown here is Kiss performing in 2004, wearing makeup).

Weinstein holds a PhD from Purdue University. She argues that heavy metal has outlasted many other rock genres largely due to the emergence of an intense, exclusionary, strongly masculine subculture.[3] Her 1991 book Heavy Metal: A Cultural Sociology "describes the heavy metal music culture, explains why it has prompted demands for censorship, and argues that the music deserves tolerance and respect."[1] A review of the book calls it:

A reasonable summary of most academic study so far, which indulges heavy metal as an extreme offshoot of rock in which rebellion is the prime goal and the fundamental ceremony is the live concert. These failings aside, there is very perceptive research here on the origins of heavy metal and the personalities within its culture. The latter is most informative of all aspects in this book and is Weinstein's strength as a writer.[4]

The Chicago Sun-Times called her book Heavy Metal: The Music and Its Culture the definitive study of heavy metal culture, saying that it "does for metal what Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces did for the Sex Pistols."[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Weinstein, D. (1991). Heavy Metal: A Cultural Sociology. Lexington Books. ISBN 9780669218374. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  2. ↑ Weinstein, D. (2009). Heavy Metal: The Music and Its Culture. Perseus Books Group. ISBN 9780786751037. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  3. ↑ Weinstein, pp. 103, 7, 8, 104
  4. ↑ "Heavy Metal: A Cultural Sociology – Deena Weinstein | Death Metal Underground". deathmetal.org. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  5. ↑ "Heavy Metal: The Music And Its Culture". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
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