Andy R Brown

Biographic Data

ID3734282
NAMEAndy R Brown
GIVEN NAMESAndy R
FAMILY NAMEBrown
SIGNATUREBROWN A R
AFFILIATIONSBath Spa University University of Bath
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS23
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX2

  • Heavy metal justice? Calibrating the economic and aesthetic accreditation of the heavy metal genre in the pages of Rolling Stone 1980–91: Part one 1980–851

    Open AccessSandy Brown, Andy R BrownARTICLEMetal Music Studies2020

    Given the genre name heavy metal can be traced to a negative adjective that emerges out of 70s rock journalism and which reflects a widespread dissensus among rock critics about its value and impact on North American rock music, how are we to explain the gradual or cumulative shift away from this majority aesthetic disapprobation, in the 1980–85 period, towards a widespread economic accreditation, particularly in the pages of leading rock magazin…

  • Political Languages of Race and the Politics of Exclusion

    Sandy Brown, Andy R Brown et al.BOOKPolitical Languages of Race and…2018

    First published in 1999, Political Languages of Race and the Politics of Exclusion examines the post-race signification logic of languages used to promote and achieve the exclusion and stigmatisation of migrant groups within post-war Britain. Re-examining the time of Smethwick and Powellism, as well as extensive Parliamentary debates, this book develops an original thesis to show how Backbench racism became legitimated as Frontbench commons’ sens…

  • A manifesto for metal studies: Or putting the ‘politics of metal’ in its place

    Sandy Brown, Andy R BrownARTICLEMetal Music Studies2018References: 3

    This article proposes that metal studies can benefit from a knowledge of the struggles that have taken place in academia, between scholars and within and between different disciplines, over the issue of the role of the consecrated academic as mediator, critic, interpreter and advocate, in relation to popular cultural formations and the social and cultural groups identified with them. I explore how this dynamic is played-out in a number of periods…

  • Global Metal Music and Culture: Current Directions in Metal Studies

    Andy R Brown, Tom O'Boyle et al.BOOKGlobal Metal Music and Culture2016

  • A Cockroach Preserved in Amber: The Significance of Class in Critics' Representations of Heavy Metal Music and its Fans

    Open AccessSandy Brown, Andy R Brown et al.ARTICLEThe Sociological Review2014Cited by: 2References: 18

    In this paper we engage with new cultural theories of class that have identified media representations of 'excessive' white heterosexual working-class femininity as a 'constitutive limit' of incorporation into dominant (middle-class) modes of neoliberal subjectivity and Bourdieu's thesis that classification is a form of symbolic violence that constitutes both the classifier and the classified. However, what we explore are the implications of such…

  • Negatively shaping the asylum agenda? The representational strategy and impact of a tabloid news campaign

    Open AccessJulian Matthews, Sandy Brown et al.ARTICLEJournalism2012Cited by: 13References: 13

    This article examines coverage presented in a news campaign (on asylum and immigration) by the UK tabloid newspaper, the Sun, from January to March 2003. The analysis reveals how tabloid news conventions rather than government definitions or viewpoints frame the character and contours of campaign representations, an observation that throws into sharp relief existing explanations of elite influence or authority skew. This campaign includes portray…

  • Heavy Genealogy: Mapping the Currents, Contraflows and Conflicts of the Emergent Field of Metal Studies, 1978-2010

    Sandy Brown, Andy R BrownARTICLEJournal for Cultural Research2011

    What is metal studies? How can we define and characterize it? How has it emerged as a body of academic enquiry? What are its dominant disciplinary strands, theoretical concepts and preferred methodologies? Which studies have claimed most attention, defined the goals of scholarship, typical research strategies and values? How has the claim for the legitimacy or symbolic value of metal scholarship been achieved (if it has): over time and through gr…

  • Metal Studies? Cultural Research in the Heavy Metal Scene

    Karl Spracklen, Sandy Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal for Cultural Research2011

    Given its popularity, visibility and complexity, the scholarly study of heavy metal needs no justification. Like other popular music cultures, heavy metal is a contested and controversial marker of

  • Everything Louder Than Everything Else”: The contemporary metal music magazine and its cultural appeal

    Sandy Brown, Andy R BrownARTICLEJournalism Studies2007Cited by: 2References: 6

    Within contemporary metal culture the apparently ludicrous request “can we have everything louder than everything else?” has come to acquire something of touchstone status in epitomising the desire to find a way of increasing the volume of individual elements within the limitations of overall volume excess. Metal music culture, both in the past and in its current variants, has always prided itself on being the loudest and most intense-sounding of…

  • The other day I met a constituent of mine: A Theory of Anecdotal Racism

    Sandy Brown, Andy R Brown et al.ARTICLEEthnic and Racial Studies1999Cited by: 6References: 18

    This article argues that the theoretical problem of the new racism thesis, as originally formulated in the 1980s, was the account of the discursive change it proposed and the role and significance of Powellism in this process. In offering a modification of the thesis I highlight the significance of the use of anecdotal accounts of the plight of ordinary English people in areas of black settlement as central to the re-articulation of racialized co…