# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Jesse Kavadlo - Rock of Pages: An Author Event with Left Bank Books
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 18 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Author Event with Left Bank Books
Jesse Kavadlo - Rock of Pages: The Literary Tradition of 1980s Heavy Metal
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Jesse Kavadlo is Professor of English and Humanities at Maryville University of St. Louis, USA, where he teaches a variety of classes about literature and culture. He has published four books, over thirty academic articles and book chapters, and contributes to the online magazine PopMatters. Jesse is also the lead guitarist in Top Gunz: The St. Louis '80's Party Rock Experience, playing under the name Dr. NoiZe.
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Rock of Pages provides contexts and close readings of 1980s heavy metal with forty years of hindsight, drawing upon analytical frameworks usually associated with literature and literary studies.
Based on decades of work as a professor of literature and as a musician, Jesse Kavadlo analyzes the ways in which 1980s heavy metal aligns with and develops many of the themes prevalent in the canon of literature. In doing so, the book examines some of the contexts of 1980s heavy metal, including Cold War, the rise of MTV, and the formation of the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) and subsequent congressional hearings.
Rock of Pages takes the PMRC's own objections to heavy metal and uses them as titles and topics to analyze the intersections between heavy metal and literature: representations of violence, but the connected concerns about justice; images of substance abuse, and the interrelated issues of obsession, madness, suicidal ideation; sex and love, with, concomitantly, representations of women and relationships between men and women; and the references to the occult, with the depictions of Satan, the afterlife, and morality on earth itself. In doing so, the book suggests that 1980s heavy metal displayed more artistry and intelligence than people imagine, but that literature is rebellious and subversive as well.
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https://jessekavadlo.com
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Free to attend, but please RSVP
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- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Southhampton
- **state**: MO
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 5226 Gravois Ave, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63116
- **lat**: 38.57942
- **long**: -90.2691
- **full address**: 5226 Gravois Ave, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63116, 5226 Gravois Ave, St Louis, MO 63116-2310, United States, Southhampton

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- **organizer**: The Heavy Anchor (https://allevents.in/org/the-heavy-anchor/799803)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 18 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 5226 Gravois Ave, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63116, 5226 Gravois Ave, St Louis, MO 63116-2310, United States, Southhampton
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** The Heavy Anchor
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
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