"Damage Incorporated" is the first book about the legendary heavy metal band Metallica that provides a detailed exploration of the group’s music and its place within the wider popular music landscape. Written with a broad readership in mind, it offers an interdisciplinary study that incorporates a range of topics which intersect with the band’s music and cultural influence. For students of popular culture, mass media, and music, "Damage Incorporated" will be necessary reading, and sets a new standard for the study and exploration of metal within the field of popular music studies.

"Damage Incorporated" is the first book about the legendary heavy metal band Metallica that provides a detailed exploration of the group’s music and its place within the wider popular music landscape. Written with a broad readership in mind, it offers an interdisciplinary study that incorporates a range of topics which intersect with the band’s music and cultural influence. For students of popular culture, mass media, and music, "Damage Incorporated" will be necessary reading, and sets a new standard for the study and exploration of metal within the field of popular music studies.

“Both burgeoning game designers and devoted gamers should consider [Game Design: Theory & Practice] an essential read.” — Computer Gaming World “Ultimately, in both theory and practice, Rouse’s Game Design bible gets the job done. Let us pray.” - Next Generation magazine In the second edition to the acclaimed Game Design: Theory & Practice, designer Richard Rouse III balances a discussion of the essential concepts behind game design with an explanation of how you can implement them in your current project. Detailed analysis of successful games is interwoven with concrete examples from Rouse’s own experience. This second edition thoroughly updates the popular original with new chapters and fully revised text.

Canadian progressive rock band Rush was the voice of the suburban middle class. In this book, Chris McDonald assesses the band's impact on popular music and its legacy for legions of fans. McDonald explores the ways in which Rush's critique of suburban life—and its strategies for escape—reflected middle-class aspirations and anxieties, while its performances manifested the dialectic in prog rock between discipline and austerity, and the desire for spectacle and excess. The band's reception reflected the internal struggles of the middle class over cultural status. Critics cavalierly dismissed, or apologetically praised, Rush's music for its middlebrow leanings. McDonald's wide-ranging musical and cultural analysis sheds light on one of the most successful and enduring rock bands of the 1970s and 1980s.

The boundary between ‘high’ culture and ‘popular’ culture is neither hermetic nor stable. A wide-spread mechanism of a reception strongly influenced by structuralism and post-modernism has led to the amplification and acceleration of cultural production between these two poles. Relying on a decidedly theoretical approach, this volume offers a broad perspective transgressing linguistic, cultural, temporal, and media borders. Reflections and perspectives on the relationship between ‘high’ and ‘popular’ culture are the subject of the thirteen articles collected here. Side by side with theoretical approaches, case studies covering classical and Heavy Metal music, TV series and pornographic films, zombies and ‘Creature Features’, philosophically infused comics and popular lexicography, professional wrestling and hypertext literature pave the way to a contemporary aesthetics.

Learn to play over 50 classic Metallica riffs with Riffology of Metallica. Going beyond a simple tablature, each and every piece is crammed to the brim with hints and tips on how to create the Metallica sound, using the right fingering, memorable lyrics from the song, and a detailed guide to difficulties for each individual riff. Accompanied too by a band history and discography, this is the ultimate book for any Metallica fan, or indeed any metal guitarist looking to delve into the nuts and bolts of Metallica’s varied output, explore the techniques behind their signature guitar sound, and improve their playing immeasurably. Songlist: - Metal Militia - Fuel - Wherever I May Roam - Hit The Lights - One - St. Anger - Master Of Puppets - Creeping Death - To Live Is To Die - Ain't My Bitch - Blackened - Fight Fire With Fire - Disposable Heroes - Welcome Home (Sanitarium) - Of Wolf And Man - Jump In The Fire - Seek And Destroy - The Unforgiven - Nothing Else Matters - Bleeding Me - No Remorse - Some Kind Of Monster - Where The Wild Things Are - The House Jack Built - Enter Sandman - Leper Messiah - ...And Justice For All - Dyers Eve - Damage, Inc. - Fixxxer - The Frayed Ends Of Sanity - Ride The Lightning - Dirty Window - Fade To Black - The Memory Remains - Whiplash - Sad But True - Battery - Until It Sleeps - Holier Than Thou - The Four Horsemen - Wasting My Hate - The Call Of Ktulu - Eye Of The Beholder - The God That Failed - For Whom The Bell Tolls - Orion - Trapped Under Ice - Harvester Of Sorrow - The Unforgiven II - That Was Just Your Life - Broken, Beat And Scarred - The Day That Never Comes - Cyanide