The Bastardizer
The Bastardizer

Author: Bill Thunder

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2009-07-19

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 0955693950

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Bill Thunder is your average disaffected, world-weary misanthropic PI. He's been there, done that, seen it all and got it remembered in the minutest, most obsessive detail. But this is a case that sees him tested to his limits. There's nothing unusual about a missing man... but things are a little more complicated when the missing person happens to share a name with the world's most famous recently-deceased celebrity. While on the hunt for Michael Jackson - a wealthy businessman - Thunder risks life and limb as he trawls the violent underworld of shady dealings and Internet pornography. 'The Bastardizer' is a truly unique novel. Combining ultraviolence more brutal than 'A Clockwork Orange' with the surgical detail of 'Grey's Anatomy, ' the misanthropic narrative of 'The Bastardizer' carves a new groove against the well-worn furrows of genre fiction.

Backstage Passes & Backstabbing Bastards
Backstage Passes & Backstabbing Bastards

Author: Al Kooper

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780879309220

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(Book). A rock 'n roll classic, back in print, updated and revised. One of the funniest rock memoirs ever, Al Kooper's legendary Backstage Passes is available again! Al's quirky life, from would-be teenage rocker, to crashing Bob Dylan's recording session and playing the organ on Highway 61 , to forming Blood, Sweat, and Tears and masterminding the Super Sessions, it's all here...plus, in this updated version, Al rides with us all the way back to the end of the 20th century. There has never been a more wickedly humorous and honest book by a man who has made such rock history.

Heavy Metal Music, Texts, and Nationhood
Heavy Metal Music, Texts, and Nationhood

Author: Catherine Hoad

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-10-25

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 3030676196

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This book addresses how whiteness is represented in heavy metal scenes and practices, both as a site of academic inquiry and force of cultural significance. The author argues that whiteness, and more specifically white masculinity, has been given normative value which obscures the contributions of women and people of colour, and affirms the exclusory understandings of ‘belonging’ which have featured in the metal scenes of Norway, South Africa, and Australia. Utilizing critical discourse analysis and critical textual analysis of musical texts, promotional material, and participant-based observation ethnographies, it explores how the texts, discourses, and practices produced and articulated by metal scene members and scholars alike have presented heavy metal as a white, masculine pastime, yet also considers the vital work done by scene members to confront expressions of exclusory misogyny and racism when they emerge in metal scenes. The book will be of interest to researchers and scholars in the fields of metal music studies, leisure studies, sociology of culture and sociology of racism.

Encyclopaedia of Australian Heavy Metal
Encyclopaedia of Australian Heavy Metal

Author: Brian Giffin

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-05-04

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 0994320612

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The Encyclopaedia of Australian Metal presents pictures, biographies and discographical information on more than 2000 metal and heavy rock bands from all parts of Australia - from the early 70s pioneers like AC/DC, Buffalo and Rose Tattoo to the current breed: Psycroptic, Parkway Drive, Ne Obliviscaris and more.