Heavy Metal Music in Latin America

Perspectives from the Distorted South

AvNelson Varas-Díaz,Daniel Nevárez Araújo

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

In Heavy Metal Music in Latin America: Perspectives from the Distorted South, the editors bring together scholars engaged in the study of heavy metal music in Latin America to reflect on the heavy metal genre from a regional perspective. The contributors’ southern voices diversify metal scholarship in the global north. An extreme musical genre for an extreme region, the contributors explore how issues like colonialism, dictatorships, violence, ethnic extermination and political persecution have shaped heavy metal music in Latin America, and how music has helped shape Latin American culture and politics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-08-19
Mått:153 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:360
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781793607539

Utforska kategorier

Musikvetenskap inom Kultur
Populärmusik inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor of social-community psychology in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University.Daniel Nevárez Araújo received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.Eliut Rivera Segarra isclinical psychologist and assistant professor at the Ponce Health Sciences University in Puerto Rico.

Recensioner i media

Finally! With this pathbreaking volume, the vitality and iconoclastic spirit of Latin American metal studies scholarship becomes accessible to English readers. Heavy metal now belongs to the whole of humanity, but its intense, community-affirming roar has special significance in the Latin American region as a rallying cry for anti-colonial resistance and self-assertion in the context of oppression, injustice, and war. This collection of insightful essays on metal culture in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and the Latin American diaspora deserves mandatory reading status for metal scholars, Latin America specialists, and cultural theorists of all persuasions.

Innehållsförteckning

SECTION I: UNDERSTANDING METAL MUSIC IN LATIN AMERICA 5Chapter 1 Conceptualizing the Distorted South: How to Understand Metal Music and Its Scholarship in Latin AmericaNelson Varas-Díaz, Daniel Nevárez Araújo, and Eliut Rivera-SegarraSECTION II: A SOUNDTRACK FOR A VIOLENT CONTEXT 37Chapter 2 Decomposición Cerebral: The Salvadoran Civil War and the Birth of Salvadoran Brutal Death MetalChristian M. PackChapter 3 Dictatorship and Metal in Chile: A Causal Relationship?Maximiliano Sánchez MondacaChapter 4 The Role of Death Metal in the Colombian Armed Conflict: The Case of the Band MasacrePedro Manuel Lagos ChacónChapter 5 Sounds of Exclusion and Seclusion: Peruvian Metal as a Model for Cultural Self-SegregationJosé Ignacio López Ramírez GastónSECTION III: DECOLONIZING LOCAL HISTORIES THROUGH MUSIC 131Chapter 6 The Metal Scene in Havana, Cuba: An Assessment of Its Cultural Development from 2007 to 2017Miriela Fernández LozanoChapter 7 In the Shadow of the Dictatorship: A Historical A