Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor of social-community psychology at Florida International University’s Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies.Jeremy Wallach is professor of popular culture in the School of Cultural and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University.Esther Clinton taught in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) for sixteen years on topics ranging from traditional narrative to popular novels to advanced cultural theory. Esther’s tragic, untimely death at age 50 cut short her exploration of these topics, but her many students carry on her legacy.Daniel Nevárez Araújo is assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Puerto Rico - Río Piedras.

• ContentsIntroduction: Of “Metal” and Metal: A Global South Approach to Metal StudiesDaniel Nevárez Araújo, Nelson Varas-Díaz, Jeremy Wallach, and Esther ClintonSection 1: Conceptualizing the Distorted SouthChapter 1. Metal Music in the Distorted South: A Call for Defiance and ReflectionNelson Varas-Díaz, Daniel Nevárez Araújo, Jeremy Wallach, and Esther ClintonSection 2: HopeChapter 2. An Exegesis of Excess: Reverberations and Connotations of Feminisms Cartographed via Metal Music in the Global SouthSusana González-MartínezChapter 3. Reclaiming Aotearoa: Stories of Experimentation, Education, and Reflection in Aotearoa Indigenous Metal MusicDidier GoossensChapter 4. “A Whole New Type of Isolation”: Resilience and Hope in the Navajo Nation Metal Scene during the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020–2021Anthony J. Thibodeau and Sage BondSection 3: Social ChangeChapter 5. “We Play Heavy Metal because Our Lives Are Heavy Metal”: A Generation of Metal in the Middle East and North AfricaM

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, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Oceania, and Indigenous Nations 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.

Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor of social-community psychology at Florida International University’s Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies.Jeremy Wallach is professor of popular culture in the School of Cultural and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University.Esther Clinton taught in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) for sixteen years on topics ranging from traditional narrative to popular novels to advanced cultural theory. Esther’s tragic, untimely death at age 50 cut short her exploration of these topics, but her many students carry on her legacy.Daniel Nevárez Araújo is assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Puerto Rico - Río Piedras.

• ContentsIntroduction: Of “Metal” and Metal: A Global South Approach to Metal StudiesDaniel Nevárez Araújo, Nelson Varas-Díaz, Jeremy Wallach, and Esther ClintonSection 1: Conceptualizing the Distorted SouthChapter 1. Metal Music in the Distorted South: A Call for Defiance and ReflectionNelson Varas-Díaz, Daniel Nevárez Araújo, Jeremy Wallach, and Esther ClintonSection 2: HopeChapter 2. An Exegesis of Excess: Reverberations and Connotations of Feminisms Cartographed via Metal Music in the Global SouthSusana González-MartínezChapter 3. Reclaiming Aotearoa: Stories of Experimentation, Education, and Reflection in Aotearoa Indigenous Metal MusicDidier GoossensChapter 4. “A Whole New Type of Isolation”: Resilience and Hope in the Navajo Nation Metal Scene during the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020–2021Anthony J. Thibodeau and Sage BondSection 3: Social ChangeChapter 5. “We Play Heavy Metal because Our Lives Are Heavy Metal”: A Generation of Metal in the Middle East and North AfricaM

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, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Oceania, and Indigenous Nations 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.

Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor of social-community psychology at Florida International University’s Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies.Jeremy Wallach is professor of popular culture in the School of Cultural and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University.Esther Clinton taught in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) for sixteen years on topics ranging from traditional narrative to popular novels to advanced cultural theory. Esther’s tragic, untimely death at age 50 cut short her exploration of these topics, but her many students carry on her legacy.Daniel Nevárez Araújo is assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Puerto Rico - Río Piedras.

• ContentsIntroduction: Of “Metal” and Metal: A Global South Approach to Metal StudiesDaniel Nevárez Araújo, Nelson Varas-Díaz, Jeremy Wallach, and Esther ClintonSection 1: Conceptualizing the Distorted SouthChapter 1. Metal Music in the Distorted South: A Call for Defiance and ReflectionNelson Varas-Díaz, Daniel Nevárez Araújo, Jeremy Wallach, and Esther ClintonSection 2: HopeChapter 2. An Exegesis of Excess: Reverberations and Connotations of Feminisms Cartographed via Metal Music in the Global SouthSusana González-MartínezChapter 3. Reclaiming Aotearoa: Stories of Experimentation, Education, and Reflection in Aotearoa Indigenous Metal MusicDidier GoossensChapter 4. “A Whole New Type of Isolation”: Resilience and Hope in the Navajo Nation Metal Scene during the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020–2021Anthony J. Thibodeau and Sage BondSection 3: Social ChangeChapter 5. “We Play Heavy Metal because Our Lives Are Heavy Metal”: A Generation of Metal in the Middle East and North AfricaM

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, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Oceania, and Indigenous Nations 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.