Full Description
In 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.
Contents
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 A
