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Book SynopsisFar from its sites of origin in the Global North, metal music thrives in the hands of musicians, fans, and scholars throughout other geographies of the world. Metal in the Global South, the latter defined as a geographical and symbolic space marked by the colonial dynamics of modernity, shines through in Defiant Sounds: Heavy Metal Music in the Global South. The volume brings together authors working from and/or with the Global South to reflect on the roles of metal music throughout their respective regions. With contributions spanning Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Oceania, and Indigenous Nations, the essays position metal music at the epicenter of region-specific experiences of oppression marked by colonialism, ethnic extermination, political persecution, and war. More importantly, the authors stress how metal music is used throughout the Global South to face these oppressive experiences, foster hope, and promote an agenda that seeks to build a better world. It may be that metal’s greatest contribution to human emancipation will be in the years to come, in places its originators never imagined. This volume offers evidence of that contribution already taking place in the geographical and symbolic space that we respectfully and emphatically call the Distorted South.
Trade Review"Defiant Sounds: Heavy Metal Music in the Global South is an important book, both for metal scholarship (which is a large and expanding global community) and equally for understanding Latin America in the current world. Metal was ahead of the curve in grasping the political and cultural changes in the region. The editors are esteemed scholars of metal and globalization."
-- Deena Weinstein, DePaul University
Table of ContentsContents
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
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