ABSTRACT
In his appearance, Reggie was not a typical metalhead. A handsome young black man, he had short, simply styled hair and was nicely dressed in a loose blue denim shirt and fashionable black-and-white pants, although he wore no shoes (it was, after all, a July day in Atlanta). A senior in high school, he was exceptionally articulate for his age and also humorous, in a sardonic way. Although he did not look the part, he was a devoted metalhead. He had a job writing about popular music for a local teen magazine, which he felt gave him a certain authority to debunk misconceptions about heavy metal music.
