Publication Date
5-2022
Abstract
Nu metal, the oft-maligned subgenre of heavy music which reached massive commercial heights around the turn of the millennium, has long been a pop cultural punching bag. With recent media trends retrospectively framing past movements along ill-defined identity lines, the 2021 HBO documentary “Woodstock 99: Peace, Love and Rage” takes a close look at the ill-advised late-90s festival and does so by condemning Nu metal as staunchly consumerist, misogynist, and racist. These characteristics are generally held across the few pieces of media scholarship on the genre. In this paper, I analyze and rebuke the documentary and in doing so, provide a firm defense of what I see as the unsung voice of the suburb generation.
Recommended Citation
Graff, Samuel
(2022)
"A Response to Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage; Recontextualizing Editorial Biases in Nu Metal,"
Comm-entary: Vol. 18:
Iss.
1, Article 12.
Available at:
https://scholars.unh.edu/comm-entary/vol18/iss1/12