Heavy Metal Music in Latin America

Perspectives from the Distorted South
Herausgeber: Araújo, Daniel Nevárez; Varas-Díaz, Nelson; Rivera-Segarra, Eliut

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Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together researchers from twelve countries in Latin America to reflect on the social dimensions of metal music in Latin America. An extreme musical genre for an extreme region, the contributors explore how issues like colonialism, dictatorships, violence, ethn...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9781793607539
• ISBN-10: 1793607532
• Artikelnr.: 64932124

Autorenporträt

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 is clinical psychologist and assistant professor at the Ponce Health Sciences University in Puerto Rico.

Inhaltsangabe

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-Díaz, Daniel Nevárez Araújo, and Eliut Rivera-Segarra
SECTION II: A SOUNDTRACK FOR A VIOLENT CONTEXT 37
Chapter 2 Decomposición 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 Sánchez Mondaca
Chapter 4 The Role of Death Metal in the Colombian Armed Conflict: The Case
of the Band Masacre
Pedro Manuel Lagos Chacón
Chapter 5 Sounds of Exclusion and Seclusion: Peruvian Metal as a Model for
Cultural Self-Segregation
José Ignacio López Ramírez Gastón
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 Fernández Lozano
Chapter 7 In the Shadow of the Dictatorship: A Historical Approach to
Uruguayan Heavy Metal
María Ximena Rodríguez Molinari
Chapter 8 Metal and Politics in Argentina: A Study into the Audienceship
Surrounding Ricardo Iorio
Manuela Belén 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 Maximón as a Practice of
Resistance in Metal from San Pedro Sacatepéquez, San Marcos, Guatemala
Mario Efraín Castañeda Maldonado
Chapter 11 La Periferia: Marginal Contexts for Metal Music in the State of
México
Alfredo Nieves Molina
Chapter 12 Differences in the Sociopolitical Perspectives of Brazilian and
European Völkisch 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-Díaz
Chapter 14 Metal Migration: The Latin American Diasporic Experience in
Heavy Metal
Daniel Nevárez Araújo