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- ItemLive Music Recovery: Reflections on the Aotearoa ExperienceCarter D; Hoad C
- ItemSignificantly Othered: Limp Bizkit and the Politics of Nu Metal “Otherness”(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023-07-09) Hoad CIn this article, I explore how nu metal was problematically situated as an “Other” in response to heavy metal’s supposed crisis of identity at the turn of the millennium. Using Limp Bizkit as a central case study, I consider how the fragmented state of metal and market growth of hip hop in the mid 1990s provided the preconditions for nu metal to flourish commercially; how Limp Bizkit were marketed in response to this growth; and finally, how their reception, demise, and eventual reprisal are caught up within heavy metal’s anxieties over generic purity and the racialized terrain of the music of “Others.”.
