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Andy R. Brown

Andy has been researching and writing about metal for over fifteen years and recently gave a keynote talk ‘Egg-head-banger? Critical reflections on a “career” in metal studies’ at the 2nd Modern Heavy Metal International Conference (Helsinki, 2016). He co-edited the special issue ‘Metal studies? Cultural research in the heavy metal scene’ (Journal for Cultural Research, 2011), which includes his much-cited research article on the metal studies bibliography database, ‘Heavy genealogy’. He was co-editor of Heavy Metal Generations (2012) and lead-editor of Global Metal Music and Culture: Current Directions in Metal Studies (2016). Recent articles include, ‘A cockroach preserved in amber’ (The Sociological Review, 2014) and ‘Explaining the naming of heavy metal from rock’s “back pages”’ (Metal Music Studies, 2015). Recent chapters include ‘Everything louder than everyone else’ (The Sage Handbook of Popular Music, 2015), ‘The ballad of heavy metal’ (Heavy Metal Studies and Popular Culture, 2016), ‘Girls like metal, too’ (Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality, 2016), ‘You’re all partied out, dude!: The mainstreaming of heavy metal subcultural tropes, from Bill & Ted to Wayne’s World’ (Teenage Dreams: Youth Subcultures in Fiction, Film and Other Media, 2018) and ‘From class disgust to indie art-house accolade and fan celebrity: The strange cultural journey of Heavy Metal Parking Lot’ (Metal at the Movies, 2018).


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