Kerrang! magazine and the representation of heavy metal’s masculinity: A content analysis of Kerrang! cover images from 1981-1995.

Kerrang! magazine is Britain’s longest running and most popular alternative music publication. The weekly magazine serves the UK rock and metal community and encapsulates a broad collection of sub-genres within rock and metal. Rock and (especially) heavy metal culture has been cited (Walser, 1993; Coates, 1997; Hill, 2011; Vasan, 2011) as being overtly masculinised and patriarchal and as such sustaining the same gender inequalities as mainstream culture (Schippers, 2002) yet the ways in which this masculinity is expressed through style and image is in many ways different to that of the mainstream. This content analysis explores images featured on the cover pages (a cross section) of Kerrang! magazine from 1981-1995 identifying the stylistic and performative features of masculinity within heavy metal culture as represented in Kerrang! magazine. Further analysis compares and contrasts these features with those presented in “mainstream” lifestyle and music publications of the time. The data presented reflects what Brown (2007) described as “everything louder than everything else” as being an identifying principle of heavy metal culture. In this sense “everything louder than everything else” also becomes a characteristic if heavy metal masculinity. The concluding discussion situates Kerrang! as being an influential force in the rock and metal lifestyle and through the beginnings of its operation (at the end of the 20th Century) has provided and continually enforced a model for the expression of masculine practices within the scene

Roman Corinth: the formation of a colonial elite

Η παρούσα μελέτη χρησιμοποιεί τη νομισματοκοπία και την επιγραφική της Ρωμαϊκής Κορίνθου για να ορίσει με μεγαλύτερη ακρίβεια τις κοινωνικές και γεωγραφικές πηγές της ομάδας μέλη της οποίας κρατούσαν τα υψηλότερα αξιώματα στην επαρχία και αποτελούσαν την κυβερνώσα τάξη από την εποχή του Αυγούστου έως την εποχή του Νέρωνα

Kerrang! magazine and the representation of heavy metal masculinities (1981–95)

Metal magazines have been shown to play a significant role in communicating and shaping heavy metal culture. And, since the masculinist nature of heavy metal is perhaps its most discussed and agreed upon feature, scholars have argued that heavy metal magazines also reproduce masculine hegemony. Focusing on cover images from Kerrang! magazine, this study utilizes a mixed methods approach to examine how heavy metal masculinities are represented over an extended number of issues (from 1981 to 1995). Utilizing existing scholarship on heavy metal magazines and drawing on celebrity identification theory, I argue that many of the prevailing studies that discuss heavy metal masculinities are essentially flawed in their reliance upon particular traits. Instead I show the ways that media images can come to both reproduce and resist masculine gender norms in the context of heavy metal culture. By considering how representations are formed over an extended period and in relation to particular heavy metal icons, I show that certain arguments and assumptions about masculinity and male privilege in heavy metal culture are oversimplified

Utilising mood boards in media research

This workshop explores how mood boards can be utilised within media audience research. This methodology has been developed in relation to a wider research project focussing on men, masculinity and reflexivity. The mood board process is one that is used most frequently in design practices and education but is shown here to have use in a media research context. The use of mood boards in capturing audience reactions and reflections on media images (specifically men’s magazines) is argued to be a useful method insofar as it allows participants to select and curate imagery in a simple and intuitive way and provides an elicitation device for participants to communicate through. The method is understood as being part creative visual method, part elicitation and part focus group. However, unlike creative visual methods the visual materials created here are used as elicitation devices rather than the data source. This workshop explores the development of the mood board methodology before inviting participants to engage in the same method in relation to the theme “what is masculinity?” using imagery found in a selection of men’s lifestyle magazines (Men’s Health, Esquire, Attitude and GQ). During the process one participant in each group assumes the role of the researcher and is responsible for steering the discussions and maintaining focus

Jennifer Tobin, Herodes Attikos and the City of Athens. Patronage and Conflict under the Antonines (ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΕΛΛΑΣ 4) (1997)

Spawforth Antony. Jennifer Tobin, Herodes Attikos and the City of Athens. Patronage and Conflict under the Antonines (ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΕΛΛΑΣ 4) (1997). In: Topoi, volume 8/1, 1998. pp. 379-380

Jennifer Tobin, Herodes Attikos and the City of Athens. Patronage and Conflict under the Antonines (ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΕΛΛΑΣ 4) (1997)

Spawforth Antony. Jennifer Tobin, Herodes Attikos and the City of Athens. Patronage and Conflict under the Antonines (ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΕΛΛΑΣ 4) (1997). In: Topoi, volume 8/1, 1998. pp. 379-380