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Defiant Sounds

Heavy Metal Music in the Global South

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

AvNelson Varas-Díaz,Jeremy Wallach,Esther Clinton,Daniel Nevárez Araújo

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This book creates necessary dialogue within the world of heavy metal by bringing together multiple regions in the Global South.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.

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Utgivningsdatum2027-01-07
Mått152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt577 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieExtreme Sounds Studies: Global Socio-Cultural Explorations
Antal sidor432
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793651877

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Nelson Varas-Díaz is Professor of Social-Community Psychology at Florida International University, USA.Jeremy Wallach is Professor of popular culture in the School of Cultural and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University, USA.Esther Clinton taught in the department of popular culture at Bowling Green State University for 16 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.

IntroductionSection I: Conceptualizing the Distorted South1. Metal Music in the Distorted South (Nelson Varas-Díaz, Daniel Nevárez Araújo, Jeremy Wallach, and Esther Clinton)Section II: Hope2. An Exegesis of Excess (Susana González-Martínez)3. Reclaiming Aotearoa (Didier Goossens)4. “A Whole New Type of Isolation” (Anthony J. Thibodeau and Sage Bond)Section III: Social Change5. “We Play Heavy Metal Because Our Lives Are Heavy Metal” (Mark LeVine)6. Youth Activism and Decolonial Metal (Paula Rowe)7. Coloniality and Gender in the Argentinian Metal Scene (Manuela Belén Calvo)Section IV: Dialogues8. An Interview on Contar/Cantar Memórias da Resistência (Susane Hécate (Miasthenia) and Daniel Nevárez Araújo)9. Misusing Things in Metal Music (Manuel Gagneux (Zeal & Ardor) and Daniel Nevárez Araújo)10. The Alternative Side of the Frame (Kobi Farhi (Orphaned Land) and Nelson Varas-Díaz)11. A Dialogue on Metal Festivals and Social Justice (Tshomarelo “Vulture” Mosaka (Overthrust) and Edward Banchs)Section V: Diaspora12. The Ultra-Violence (Kevin Fellezs)13. “Somewhere They Belong” (Azmyl Yusof and Adil Johan)Section VI: Transgression14. Ancient, Evil, and African (Edward Banchs)15. The Influence of Different Satanic Panics on the Transgressive Practices of Metal Music in Egypt, Iran, and Syria (Pasqualina Eckerstro¨m)Section VII: Resistance and Community16. Decolonizing the Mind’s Eye (Nelson Varas-Díaz and Daniel Nevárez Araújo)17. Nongkrong, Value of Community, and Everyday Resistance in the Indonesian Metal Scene (Oki Rahadianto Sutopo and Agustinus Aryo Lukisworo)18: Satan Wasn’t There (Amine Hamma and Brian Trott)EpilogueIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors

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.