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Seeing Metal Music in Latin America and the Caribbean

Nelson Varas-Díaz and Daniel Nevárez Araújo

For many fans, metal was visual before it was aural. This book explores the visual dimensions of metal music from the specific socio-historic, geographic, and political positionality of Latin America and the Caribbean where this visual register allows creators and consumers to engage in four distinct strategies (i.e., seeing, revealing, inverting, and appearing) as part of what the authors have termed “extreme decolonial dialogues.” They support their position through a diverse lens that examines essential aspects of the visual dimensions of metal music: album artwork, clothing, film, sites, and activist practices.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 262 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-1-66691-978-3 • Hardback • August 2024 • $115.00 • (£88.00)
978-1-66691-979-0 • eBook • August 2024 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
Series: Extreme Sounds Studies: Global Socio-Cultural Explorations
Subjects: Music / Genres & Styles / Heavy Metal, Music / EthnoMusicology, Music / Genres & Styles / Rock, Music / Essays, Social Science / World / Latin America, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies

Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor of global and sociocultural studies at Florida International University.

Daniel Nevárez Araújo is assistant professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico.

Table of Contents

Introduction

A Synesthetic Experience

Pablo Trangone

Singer – Arraigo (Argentina)

PART ONE: SEEING

Chapter 1

Seeing Metal Music: Notes Regarding an Ontological Act

PART TWO: REVEALING

Chapter 2

Documentary Film and Metal Music Elsewhere

Chapter 3

Caribbean Metal and Colonial Truth-Telling

Chapter 4

Metal Shirts in Latin America and the Caribbean: Frayed, Faded, Weathered, Alive

PART THREE: INVERTING

Chapter 5

Metal Music / Indigenous Bodies

Chapter 6

¡Al Machete!: Images of Resistance in Caribbean Metal Music

Chapter 7:

Humor and the Disruptive Hybridization of Visual Conventions in Our Metal Music

PART FOUR: APPEARING

Chapter 8

Metal Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean

Chapter 9

An Invitation to an Ethics of Affront

Bibliography

About the Authors

“This incredible work of ethnography, ethnomusicology, political geography and sonic ecologies reminds us not only that heavy metal and its various subgenres have always been a quintessentially global music, but that their extreme sonic force demands and enables equally innovative and powerful forms of scholarship to explore them. Nelson Varas-Diaz and Daniel Nevárez Araújo have created a landmark work of scholarship as important to metal studies as Black Sabbath, Kill 'Em All or Number of the Beast were to the music. A must-read for any students of cultural studies, popular music studies, or connoisseur of metal the way it's supposed to be heard and seen—loud and uncompromising.”


— Mark LeVine, Author of We'll Play till We Die


Nelson and Daniel’s work is a powerful contribution to the world of Metal Studies as it pulls back the curtain of what metal in the Global South truly represents. Seeing Metal Music in Latin America and the Caribbean forces us to come face-to-face with our own assumptions of how we both see and hear metal in the Global South by presenting stories of resistance and rebellion in a manner that amplifies the voices of those who continue to feel colonialism hovering over them. I have a feeling this is a book that scholars and fans will be talking about for some time.


— Edward Banchs, author of Scream for Me, Africa! Heavy Metal Identities in Post-Colonial Africa


Seeing Metal Music in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Hardback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • For many fans, metal was visual before it was aural. This book explores the visual dimensions of metal music from the specific socio-historic, geographic, and political positionality of Latin America and the Caribbean where this visual register allows creators and consumers to engage in four distinct strategies (i.e., seeing, revealing, inverting, and appearing) as part of what the authors have termed “extreme decolonial dialogues.” They support their position through a diverse lens that examines essential aspects of the visual dimensions of metal music: album artwork, clothing, film, sites, and activist practices.

Details
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  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 262 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
    978-1-66691-978-3 • Hardback • August 2024 • $115.00 • (£88.00)
    978-1-66691-979-0 • eBook • August 2024 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
    Series: Extreme Sounds Studies: Global Socio-Cultural Explorations
    Subjects: Music / Genres & Styles / Heavy Metal, Music / EthnoMusicology, Music / Genres & Styles / Rock, Music / Essays, Social Science / World / Latin America, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies
Author
Author
  • Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor of global and sociocultural studies at Florida International University.

    Daniel Nevárez Araújo is assistant professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction

    A Synesthetic Experience

    Pablo Trangone

    Singer – Arraigo (Argentina)

    PART ONE: SEEING

    Chapter 1

    Seeing Metal Music: Notes Regarding an Ontological Act

    PART TWO: REVEALING

    Chapter 2

    Documentary Film and Metal Music Elsewhere

    Chapter 3

    Caribbean Metal and Colonial Truth-Telling

    Chapter 4

    Metal Shirts in Latin America and the Caribbean: Frayed, Faded, Weathered, Alive

    PART THREE: INVERTING

    Chapter 5

    Metal Music / Indigenous Bodies

    Chapter 6

    ¡Al Machete!: Images of Resistance in Caribbean Metal Music

    Chapter 7:

    Humor and the Disruptive Hybridization of Visual Conventions in Our Metal Music

    PART FOUR: APPEARING

    Chapter 8

    Metal Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Chapter 9

    An Invitation to an Ethics of Affront

    Bibliography

    About the Authors

Reviews
Reviews
  • “This incredible work of ethnography, ethnomusicology, political geography and sonic ecologies reminds us not only that heavy metal and its various subgenres have always been a quintessentially global music, but that their extreme sonic force demands and enables equally innovative and powerful forms of scholarship to explore them. Nelson Varas-Diaz and Daniel Nevárez Araújo have created a landmark work of scholarship as important to metal studies as Black Sabbath, Kill 'Em All or Number of the Beast were to the music. A must-read for any students of cultural studies, popular music studies, or connoisseur of metal the way it's supposed to be heard and seen—loud and uncompromising.”


    — Mark LeVine, Author of We'll Play till We Die


    Nelson and Daniel’s work is a powerful contribution to the world of Metal Studies as it pulls back the curtain of what metal in the Global South truly represents. Seeing Metal Music in Latin America and the Caribbean forces us to come face-to-face with our own assumptions of how we both see and hear metal in the Global South by presenting stories of resistance and rebellion in a manner that amplifies the voices of those who continue to feel colonialism hovering over them. I have a feeling this is a book that scholars and fans will be talking about for some time.


    — Edward Banchs, author of Scream for Me, Africa! Heavy Metal Identities in Post-Colonial Africa


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