Deena Weinstein (born March 15, 1943) is a professor of sociology at DePaul University whose research focuses on popular culture.
[3] Her 1991 book Heavy Metal: A Cultural Sociology "describes the heavy metal music culture, explains why it has prompted demands for censorship, and argues that the music deserves tolerance and respect.
"[1] She argues that heavy metal has outlasted many other rock genres largely due to the emergence of an intense, exclusionary, strongly masculine subculture.
[4] A review of the book calls it: A reasonable summary of most academic study so far, which indulges heavy metal as an extreme offshoot of rock in which rebellion is the prime goal and the fundamental ceremony is the live concert.
These failings aside, there is very perceptive research here on the origins of heavy metal and the personalities within its culture.