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Heavy Metal Music in Latin America
Heavy Metal Music in Latin America
Perspectives from the Distorted South
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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.
Edited by Nelson Varas-Diaz, Daniel Nevarez Araujo, Eliut Rivera-Segarra, Contributions by Daniel Nevarez Araujo, Manuela Belen Calvo, Mario Castaneda, Pedro Manuel Lagos Chacon, Jose Ignacio Lopez Ramirez Gaston, Guilherme Alfradique Klausner, Miriela Fernandez Lozano
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Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 360
SECTION I: UNDERSTANDING METAL MUSIC IN LATIN AMERICA 5 Chapter 1 Conceptualizing the Distorted South: How to Understand Metal Music and Its Scholarship in Latin America Nelson Varas-Diaz, Daniel Nevarez Araujo, and Eliut Rivera-Segarra SECTION II: A SOUNDTRACK FOR A VIOLENT CONTEXT 37 Chapter 2 Decomposicion Cerebral: The Salvadoran Civil War and the Birth of Salvadoran Brutal Death Metal Christian M. Pack Chapter 3 Dictatorship and Metal in Chile: A Causal Relationship? Maximiliano Sanchez Mondaca Chapter 4 The Role of Death Metal in the Colombian Armed Conflict: The Case of the Band Masacre Pedro Manuel Lagos Chacon Chapter 5 Sounds of Exclusion and Seclusion: Peruvian Metal as a Model for Cultural Self-Segregation Jose Ignacio Lopez Ramirez Gaston SECTION III: DECOLONIZING LOCAL HISTORIES THROUGH MUSIC 131 Chapter 6 The Metal Scene in Havana, Cuba: An Assessment of Its Cultural Development from 2007 to 2017 Miriela Fernandez Lozano Chapter 7 In the Shadow of the Dictatorship: A Historical Approach to Uruguayan Heavy Metal Maria Ximena Rodriguez Molinari Chapter 8 Metal and Politics in Argentina: A Study into the Audienceship Surrounding Ricardo Iorio Manuela Belen Calvo Chapter 9 America, Avenge Yourself: The Emergence of Combative Discourse and Other Recent Directions in Contemporary Argentinian Metal (An Exploration in Three Movements) Emiliano Scaricaciottoli SECTION IV: MARGINALITY AND CULTURES OF RESISTANCE 217 Chapter 10 The Transfiguration of the Deity Maximon as a Practice of Resistance in Metal from San Pedro Sacatepequez, San Marcos, Guatemala Mario Efrain Castaneda Maldonado Chapter 11 La Periferia: Marginal Contexts for Metal Music in the State of Mexico Alfredo Nieves Molina Chapter 12 Differences in the Sociopolitical Perspectives of Brazilian and European Voelkisch Metal Guilherme Alfradique Klausner SECTION V: LIBERATION THROUGH METAL MUSIC 285 Chapter 13 "A Scream that Makes Us Visible": Latin American Heavy Metal Music and Liberation Psychology Eliut Rivera-Segarra, Jeffrey W. Ramos, and Nelson Varas-Diaz Chapter 14 Metal Migration: The Latin American Diasporic Experience in Heavy Metal Daniel Nevarez Araujo
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Nelson Varas-Diaz is professor of social-community psychology in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University. Daniel Nevarez Araujo received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Eliut Rivera Segarra is clinical psychologist and assistant professor at the Ponce Health Sciences University in Puerto Rico.