laina dawes

As a genre, metal is commonly considered music for outsiders. In the ending of his film "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey," Canada's most famous metal nerd Sam Dunn says as much, musing that "metal confronts what we'd rather ignore... It celebrates what we often deny...

Raul Rincon When Canadian-based journalist Laina Dawes' first book, What Are You Doing Here? A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal, was published by Bazillion Points earlier this year, the curtain was raised on gender and race in metal...

Bazillion Points Laina Dawes is a music and cultural critic and opinion writer, an active public speaker, and a contributor to CBC Radio. She is also a current affairs columnist for Afrotoronto.com and contributing editor for Blogher.org. But the reason we're featuring here on Noisecreep today is that she's written a fantastic new book called What Are You Doing Here... Read More ...