D Weinstein

Biographic Data

ID15913
NAMED Weinstein
GIVEN NAMESD
FAMILY NAMEWeinstein
SIGNATUREWEINSTEIN D
AFFILIATIONSDePaul University
ORCID0000-0002-6198-9153
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS55
TOTAL CITATIONS101
AUTHOR COUNT55
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1972
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX5

  • Reflections on Metal Studies 1

    Open AccessD WeinsteinCHAPTERGlobal Metal Music and Culture2016

    Metal studies presents the fundamental question to sociology: how is metal studies possible, how is metal studies constituted? In part, that question is answered by another one: what is included in metal studies? Is everything written about metal to be included in metal studies? Andy R. Brown (2011), in his exhaustive critical analysis of the scholarly work on metal and its surrounding social relations, ‘Heavy Genealogy’, took on this inclusive a…

  • Invisible Now: Bob Dylan in the 1960s

    D WeinsteinARTICLERock Music Studies2015

    “Not since Rimbaud said ‘I is another’ has an artist been so obsessed with escaping identity.... Dylan’s refusal to be known is not simply a celebrity’s ploy, but a passion that has shaped his work. ...

  • Birminghamâ s Postindustrial Metal

    D WeinsteinCHAPTERSounds and the City2014

  • Motörhead

    D WeinsteinCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2014

  • Birmingham’s Postindustrial Metal

    Open AccessD WeinsteinCHAPTERSounds and the City2014

    A heavy metal behemoth rises nearly 20 feet above Victoria Square in central Birmingham, UK. It looks down, or would if a faceless and inert six tons of iron could see, at the statue from which this city-centre pedestrian square takes its name: Queen Victoria. Her long reign coincided with the industrialization of Birmingham, the world’s first major industrialized city. ‘Iron: Man’, erected in 1993 in a now postindustrialized city, was originally…

  • Writing the Record: The Village Voice and the Birth of Rock Criticism

    D WeinsteinARTICLERock Music Studies2014

    Beethoven had long since rolled over and Dylan had heralded the news that the times they are a changin’. By 1966 that change was palpable. It was a time of freedom, of experimentation in all areas,...

  • Postmodernized Simmel

    D Weinstein, Michael A Weinstein et al.BOOKPostmodernized Simmel2013Cited by: 22

    1. Introductions Part One Simmel as postmodernist 2. Georg Simmel: sociological flaneur bricoleur 3. Simmel/Derrida: Deconstruction as symbolic play Part Two Postmodern Simmel 4. Simmel and the dialectic of the double boundary: The case of 'the metropolis and mental life' 5. Dimensions of conflict: Georg Simmel on modern life 6. Simmel and the theory of postmodern society Part Three Postmodernized Simmel 7. Deconstruction as cultural history/the …

  • Just So Stories: How Heavy Metal Got Its Name-A Cautionary Tale

    Open AccessD WeinsteinARTICLERock Music Studies2013Cited by: 5References: 1

    An etymological inquiry into the origin of the term "heavy metal" to name a genre of rock music yields the surprising result that the conventional accounts of the term's origin are mistaken. Tracking down the actual origin, through research in the rock press and correspondence with participants in the naming, reveals the term, in part and as a whole, was in the cultural air of the times. There were competing terms for the kind of music that came …

  • How Is Metal Studies Possible

    D WeinsteinARTICLEJournal for Cultural Research2011

    From its inception four decades ago, metal music has been studied first by critics, then by political/religious detractors, and then by an increasing number of scholars based in academic settings

  • Entries

    Open AccessHarry Liebersohn, Martin Klimke et al.CHAPTERPalgrave Dictionary of…2009

  • Relations in the Kinks—Familiar but not Fully Familial

    D WeinsteinARTICLEPopular Music & Society2006Cited by: 2References: 1

    Battling brothers. Sibling rivalry. The animosity between the Kinks' singer/songwriter Ray CitationDavies and guitarist Dave Davies has been the band's requisite tag‐line for journalists. It may have been a useful promotional celebrity text, but it has served to obscure and distort the actual relations among members of the group. The paper focuses on a complex of factors that have determined the pattern of relations in the Kinks. Structural facto…

  • All Singers Are Dicks

    D WeinsteinARTICLEPopular Music & Society2004Cited by: 1

  • Hail to the Shrub: Mediating the Presidency

    Open AccessMichael A Weinstein, D WeinsteinARTICLEAmerican Behavioral Scientist2002

    With regard to the American presidency, the prestige media perform the primary function of nonpartisan interested mediation between the president and his supporters and the loyal opposition to the president. This article draws on the formal sociology of Georg Simmel as a theoretical background, the American prestige newspapers as a resource, and the presidency of G. W. Bush before and immediately after 9/11/01 as a case study. When, as in the ins…

  • A Primer on Lesbian and Gay Families

    Barbara Rothberg, D WeinsteinARTICLEJournal of Gay & Lesbian Social…1996Cited by: 2

    This chapter describes the work of the Gay and Lesbian Family Project (GLFP) at The Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy in New York City. Areas covered include: a description of the nature of The Project; a definition of lesbian, gay, and bisexual families; and description of the daily stress of “being family” in a heterosexist context; the genogram as a efficient tool for assessing individual and family needs; exploring disclosure in one's fam…

  • Postmodern(ized) Simmel

    Open AccessGerd Schroeter, D Weinstein et al.ARTICLEThe Canadian Journal of Sociology1996

  • Generation on Hold: Coming of Age in the Late Twentieth Century

    D WeinsteinREVIEWSocial Forces1996

  • Alternative youth: The ironies of recapturing youth culture

    Open AccessD WeinsteinARTICLEYoung1995Cited by: 1References: 2

    ’I feel stupid and contagious / Here we are now entertain us’, sang Kurt Cobain in Nirvana’s 1991 hit song Smells like teen spirit. Cobain was talking about and speaking for his audience, a new generation of American youth (culture) drenched in what rock critic Jim DeRogatis (1994) calls ’cynicism, skepticism and ironic sense of humor’. How did American youth become ironic- an attitude that Nietzsche associated with old age? Let me first inquire …

  • Rock Music: Secularisation and Its Cancellation

    Open AccessD WeinsteinARTICLEInternational Sociology1995Cited by: 2References: 2

    Postmodern questioning of the sacred/secular binary, when applied to the cultural form of rock music, yields the understanding that rock music is saturated with types of weak religiosity ranging from the use of rock to convey the messages of established religions to the appearance of distinctive forms of religiosity endogenous to rock that involve the relations of artist and audience. The discussion moves from a consideration of religious symboli…

  • A Blend of Contradictions: Georg Simmel in Theory and Practice

    Birgitta Nedelmann, Ann-Mari Sellerberg et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1994

  • Postmodernizing (Macro)sociology

    Open AccessD Weinstein, Michael A WeinsteinARTICLESociological Inquiry1993Cited by: 2References: 3

    A selective appropriation of postmodernist theories is undertaken with special reference to their applicability to macrosociology and to other branches of sociological inquiry that employ conceptions of social and cultural totality. The appropriation is premised on the thesis that theories of culture, such as postmodernism, can contribute to sociology by their analyses of cultural form, providing sociology with general descriptions of what social…

  • The Myth of the Madding Crowd

    D Weinstein, Clark McphailARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1991

  • The Sociology of Rock: An Undisciplined Discipline

    Open AccessD WeinsteinARTICLETheory Culture & Society1991Cited by: 2References: 2

  • Georg Simmel: Sociological Flâneur Bricoleur

    Open AccessD Weinstein, Michael A WeinsteinARTICLETheory Culture & Society1991Cited by: 28References: 6

  • Dimensions of Conflict: Georg Simmel on Modern Life

    D Weinstein, Michael A WeinsteinCHAPTERGeorg Simmel and Contemporary…1990

  • Deconstruction as Symbolic Play: Simmel/Derrida

    Open AccessD Weinstein, Michael A WeinsteinARTICLEDiogenes1990

    At the end of his writing, "La Différance," Jacques Derrida deconstructs his text by taking on an authoritative rhetorical tone. Reflecting back on his discussion of metaphysics, Derrida announces that "(t)here will be no unique name, even if it were the name of Being". And then he takes a surprising phenomeno-logical turn and advocates a privileged attitude or disposition towards his reflection:And we must think this without nostalgia, that is, …