1960s: Music
The 1960s saw a real flowering of popular music styles. Unlike the 1950s, in which the birth of rock and roll dominated the decade, jazz, pop, and folk music all gathered devoted listener...
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1970s: Music
Musically, the 1970s was a decade of great variety. Hard rock got harder, soft rock got softer, and artists frustrated with standard musical forms tossed them aside and started their ow...
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Heavy Metal
Heavy metal, a genre of rock music that was hugely popular in the United States and much of the world during the 1980s, not only left an influence on successive trends in rock music, but a...
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In the following essay, Hinds delineates the shared formal, thematic, and historic features of Gothic fiction and heavy-metal music, viewing both as subgenres—a term that Hinds takes care to re...
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There aren't too many mean-looking things in Cupertino, this sleepy Silicon Valley haunt of Apple employees and overachieving middle schoolers.But there's something gruesome growing in one corner o...
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An effort to free three young men convicted in the lurid 1993 slayings of three 8-year-old boys is gathering speed, with rock stars and other celebrities taking up their cause and about 150 support...
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Lawyers for the first man sentenced to death in Vermont since 1957 appeared before a federal appeals court Wednesday, trying to get his punishment overturned on grounds including comments prosecuto...
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A Croatian rock star set to start a North America tour with two concerts in New York City is drawing protests from groups who say his shows glorify the puppet government in Croatia that collaborate...
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One television network executive, contacted with urgency on Jan. 16 to discuss matters of great importance to the future of the medium, responded via e-mail at 9:26 p.m.
“I’m steeped i...
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Edward "Willie" Carman wanted a ticket out of town, and the Army provided it. Raised in the projects by a single mother in this blighted, old industrial steel town outside Pittsburgh, the 18-year-o...
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Raised in the projects in an old steel town, Edward "Willie" Carman saw the Army as a chance to build a new life."I'm not doing it to you, I'm doing it for me," the then-18-year-old told his mother...
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1960s: Music
Heavy Metal
Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds
Metal is sweet music to guitar makers
