Significantly Othered: Limp Bizkit and the Politics of Nu Metal “Otherness”
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2023-07-09
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Taylor and Francis Group
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(c) 2023 The Author/s
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Abstract
In 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.”.
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nu metal, 1990s, rock music, whiteness, masculinity, hip hop
Citation
Hoad C. (2023). Significantly Othered: Limp Bizkit and the Politics of Nu Metal “Otherness”. Rock Music Studies. 10. 2. (pp. 119-139).