Heavy metal és klasszikus virtuozitás
Eruptions: Heavy Metal Appropriations of Classical Virtuosity

Summary/Abstract: Scrutinizing the style and technique of outstanding metal guitarists of the 1980s, the paper shows that metal musicians consciously build on classical models, reaching a level of creative virtuosity that measures up to the standards of the originals, and surpasses their contemporary renderings in daring and power. Walser argues that, paradoxically, it is metal, a genre seen and portrayed by the media and the academia as noisy and primitive, that preserved some of the most important aspects of pre-20th century musical discourse. The paper is the third chapter of Running With the Devil: Power, Gender and Madness in Heavy Metal Music (Wesleyan University Press, 1993).

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