Rock of Pages
The Literary Tradition of 1980s Heavy Metal
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 19 February 2026
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9798765140802
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 226x152x20 mm
- Weight 420 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
"Identifies how ""dangerous"" 1980s heavy metal can be analyzed through literary criticism, how heavy metal helps us understand what's dangerous about literature, and why metal music matters."
MoreLong description:
Rock of Pages provides contexts and close readings of 1980s heavy metal with forty years of hindsight, drawing upon analytical frameworks usually associated with literature and literary studies.
Based on decades of work as a professor of literature and as a musician, Jesse Kavadlo analyzes the ways in which 1980s heavy metal aligns with and develops many of the themes prevalent in the canon of literature. In doing so, the book examines some of the contexts of 1980s heavy metal, including Cold War, the rise of MTV, and the formation of the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) and subsequent congressional hearings.
Rock of Pages takes the PMRC's own objections to heavy metal and uses them as titles and topics to analyze the intersections between heavy metal and literature: representations of violence, but the connected concerns about justice; images of substance abuse, and the interrelated issues of obsession, madness, suicidal ideation; sex and love, with, concomitantly, representations of women and relationships between men and women; and the references to the occult, with the depictions of Satan, the afterlife, and morality on earth itself. In doing so, the book suggests that 1980s heavy metal displayed more artistry and intelligence than people imagine, but that literature is rebellious and subversive as well.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Preface: My Double Life
Introduction: Won't Somebody Please Think of the Children?
Chapter 1: Nothing. But: A Good Time? Heavy Metal, the Cold War, and the Long 1980s
Chapter 2: V for Violence
Chapter 3: D/A for Drugs and Alcohol
Chapter 4: X for Sexually Explicit
Chapter 5: O for Occult
An Ode to Guitar Solos
Conclusion: Let Me Get It Back
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Selected Discography
