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Defiant Sounds: Heavy Metal Music in the Global South brings together authors working from and/or with the Global South to reflect on the roles of metal music throughout their respective regions. 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.
Contents
Contents
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
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