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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Table of ContentsSection I: Understanding Metal Music in Latin America
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
Chapter 2: “Decomposición cerebral:” The Salvadoran Civil War and the Birth of Salvadoran Brutal Death Metal
Christian M. Pack
Chapter 3: Metal and Dictatorship, A Chance Association?: A Case Study on Chilean Metal
Maximiliano Sánchez
Chapter 4: Death Metal and its Roles in Colombia’s Armed Conflict: The Case of 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
Chapter 6: Heavy Metal in Havana: Assessing the Scene’s Cultural Development from 2007 to the Present
Miriela Fernández
Chapter 7: “Por siempre Heavy Metal:” A Historiographic Approach to Uruguayan Heavy Metal in the Shadow of the Dictatorship
María Ximena Rodríguez Molinari
Chapter 8: Metal and Politics in Argentina: A Case Study on Ricardo Iorio and the Audiences That Follow Him
Manuela Belén Calvo
Chapter 9: America, Avenge Yourself: The Emergence of Combative Discourse and Other Recent Directions in Contemporary Argentinian Metal
Emiliano Scaricaciottoli
Section IV: Marginality and Cultures of Resistance
Chapter 10: Maximón in The Maximones: The Transfiguration of a Deity as a Resistance Tactic in Guatemalan Metal Music
Mario Efraín Castañeda Maldonado
Chapter 11: La Periferia: Metal Music in the Marginal Context of the State of Mexico
Alfredo Nieves Molina
Chapter 12: Metal Völkisch: A Comparative Analysis of the Sociopolitical Perspectives Found in European Metal and Brazilian Metal
Guilherme Alfradique Klausner
Section V: Liberation through Metal Music
Chapter 13: Heavy Metal Music as Liberating Praxis in Latin America: A “Psychology of Liberation” Perspective
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
