Defiant Sounds

Heavy Metal Music in the Global South
Herausgeber: Clinton, Esther; Wallach, Jeremy; Varas-Díaz, Nelson

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Produktbeschreibung

Working from and with countries spanning Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Oceania, and Indigenous Nations, the contributors of this collection reflect on the social roles of metal music and stress how it faces oppressive experiences and aims to build a better world.

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Produktdetails

• Extreme Sounds Studies: Global Socio-Cultural Explorations
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 780g
• ISBN-13: 9781793651853
• ISBN-10: 179365185X
• Artikelnr.: 66761593

Autorenporträt

Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor of social-community psychology at Florida International University's Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies. Jeremy Wallach is professor of popular culture in the School of Cultural and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University. Esther Clinton taught in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) for sixteen years on topics ranging from traditional narrative to popular novels to advanced cultural theory. Esther's tragic, untimely death at age 50 cut short her exploration of these topics, but her many students carry on her legacy. Daniel Nevárez Araújo is assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Puerto Rico - Río Piedras.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction: Of "Metal" and Metal: A Global South Approach to Metal
Studies
Daniel Nevárez Araújo, Nelson Varas-Díaz, Jeremy Wallach, and Esther
Clinton
Section 1: Conceptualizing the Distorted South
Chapter 1. Metal Music in the Distorted South: A Call for Defiance and
Reflection
Nelson Varas-Díaz, Daniel Nevárez Araújo, Jeremy Wallach, and Esther
Clinton
Section 2: Hope
Chapter 2. An Exegesis of Excess: Reverberations and Connotations of
Feminisms Cartographed via Metal Music in the Global South
Susana González-Martínez
Chapter 3. Reclaiming Aotearoa: Stories of Experimentation, Education, and
Reflection in Aotearoa Indigenous Metal Music
Didier Goossens
Chapter 4. "A Whole New Type of Isolation": Resilience and Hope in the
Navajo Nation Metal Scene during the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020-2021
Anthony J. Thibodeau and Sage Bond
Section 3: Social Change
Chapter 5. "We Play Heavy Metal because Our Lives Are Heavy Metal": A
Generation of Metal in the Middle East and North Africa
Mark LeVine
Chapter 6. Youth Activism and Decolonial Metal: Voice of Baceprot and Alien
Weaponry as Case Studies
Paula Rowe
Chapter 7. Coloniality and Gender in the Argentinian Metal Scene: A Study
Through Four Cases
Manuela Belén Calvo
Section 4: Dialogues
Chapter 8. An Interview on Contar/Cantar Memórias da Resistência
Susane Hécate (Miasthenia) and Daniel Nevárez Araújo
Chapter 9. Misusing Things in Metal Music: A Dialogue
Manuel Gagneux (Zeal & Ardor) and Daniel Nevárez Araújo
Chapter 10. The Alternative Side of the Frame: A Dialogue on Southern
Inspirations
Kobi Farhi (Orphaned Land) and Nelson Varas-Díaz
Chapter 11. A Dialogue on Metal Festivals and Social Justice
Tshomarelo "Vulture" Mosaka (Overthrust) and Edward Banchs
Section 5: Diaspora
Chapter 12. The Ultra-Violence: Death Angel and Asian American
Presence/Absence in Heavy Metal
Kevin Fellezs
Chapter 13. "Somewhere They Belong": Metal, Ethnicity, and Scenic
Solidarities in Malaysia's Underground Scenes (1990s to 2000s)
Azmyl Yusof and Adil Johan
Section 6. Transgression
Chapter 14. Ancient, Evil, and African: Heavy Metal and Conflict in East
Africa
Edward Banchs
Chapter 15. The Influence of Different Satanic Panics on the Transgressive
Practices of Metal Music in Egypt, Iran, and Syria
Pasqualina Eckerström
Section 7: Resistance and Community
Chapter 16. Decolonizing the Mind's Eye: Images of Resistance in Caribbean
Metal Music
Nelson Varas-Díaz and Daniel Nevárez Araújo
Chapter 17. Nongkrong, Value of Community, and Everyday Resistance in the
Indonesian Metal Scene
Oki Rahadianto Sutopo and Agustinus Aryo Lukisworo
Chapter 18. Satan Wasn't There: The Perseverance of the Moroccan Metal
Scene
Amine Hamma and Brian Trott
Epilogue: Metal Unbound
Esther Clinton, Jeremy Wallach, Nelson Varas-Díaz, and Daniel Nevárez
Araújo
About the Contributors