Emiliano Scaricaciottoli is professor at the University of Buenos Aires. He is the coordinator for the Group for Interdisciplinary Research on Argentinian Heavy Metal (GIIHMA) and has edited two books of essays and another seven productions on rock and metal in Argentina.Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor of social-community psychology at Florida International University. He is the coeditor of the journal Metal Music Studies and the director of the documentary film Songs of Injustice: Heavy Metal Music in Latin America.Daniel Nevárez Araújo holds a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst as well as master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.

• Preface to the Second Edition viiGroup for Interdisciplinary Research on Argentinian Heavy Metal (GIIHMA)Foreword ixEmiliano ScaricaciottoliTranslator’s Note xiiiJuan Manuel López BaioIntroduction: A Window into Heavy Metal Scholarship in the Global South xvNelson Varas-Díaz, Daniel Nevárez Araújo, and Emiliano Scaricaciottoli1. Heavy Metal as a Subculture in Argentina: Identity and Resistance 2Gustavo Torreiro2. Genre Violence: Argentinean Heavy Metal in the Music Market 16Luciano Scarrone3. Heavenly Hosts and Other Demons: Reflections Concerning aDifficult and Transversal Relationship in the History of Our Heavy Music 28Gito Minore4. Walkabout, Just Walking about for the Sake of Walking: The Journeyas an Ethos in the Poetics of Ricardo Iorio 46Manuel Bernal and Diego Caballero5. Passion and Ethics: A Space for Voice and Tradition in Iorio’s Lyrics 58Juan Ignacio Pisano6. The Reason Behind My Writing: Another Day of Being 72Ezequiel Alasia7. Piedra Libre: Referential Tensions in Argentinean Heavy MetalLyrics Since the Political Crisis of 2001/2002 84Emiliano ScaricaciottoliNotes on Contributors 100

'This book asserts that metal music is part of Argentinian culture. It is a compelling read, as both an illuminating and a pointed rebuke. Illuminating in that it opens a window onto a contained and vibrant subculture kept within Argentinian borders, emerging in the 1980s under a military dictatorship; a rebuke in the sense that the reach of metal music and metal music studies can no longer be confined to the global North.  This collection of chapters, translated from Spanish, shows that the Argentinean metal scene is deeply embedded in a social and political currency that reaches far beyond its borders. The hope is that this work paves the way for an increased attention to metal music subcultures, one that generates new knowledge for a truly global audience.'

Emiliano Scaricaciottoli is professor at the University of Buenos Aires. He is the coordinator for the Group for Interdisciplinary Research on Argentinian Heavy Metal (GIIHMA) and has edited two books of essays and another seven productions on rock and metal in Argentina.Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor of social-community psychology at Florida International University. He is the coeditor of the journal Metal Music Studies and the director of the documentary film Songs of Injustice: Heavy Metal Music in Latin America.Daniel Nevárez Araújo holds a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst as well as master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.

• Preface to the Second Edition viiGroup for Interdisciplinary Research on Argentinian Heavy Metal (GIIHMA)Foreword ixEmiliano ScaricaciottoliTranslator’s Note xiiiJuan Manuel López BaioIntroduction: A Window into Heavy Metal Scholarship in the Global South xvNelson Varas-Díaz, Daniel Nevárez Araújo, and Emiliano Scaricaciottoli1. Heavy Metal as a Subculture in Argentina: Identity and Resistance 2Gustavo Torreiro2. Genre Violence: Argentinean Heavy Metal in the Music Market 16Luciano Scarrone3. Heavenly Hosts and Other Demons: Reflections Concerning aDifficult and Transversal Relationship in the History of Our Heavy Music 28Gito Minore4. Walkabout, Just Walking about for the Sake of Walking: The Journeyas an Ethos in the Poetics of Ricardo Iorio 46Manuel Bernal and Diego Caballero5. Passion and Ethics: A Space for Voice and Tradition in Iorio’s Lyrics 58Juan Ignacio Pisano6. The Reason Behind My Writing: Another Day of Being 72Ezequiel Alasia7. Piedra Libre: Referential Tensions in Argentinean Heavy MetalLyrics Since the Political Crisis of 2001/2002 84Emiliano ScaricaciottoliNotes on Contributors 100

'This book asserts that metal music is part of Argentinian culture. It is a compelling read, as both an illuminating and a pointed rebuke. Illuminating in that it opens a window onto a contained and vibrant subculture kept within Argentinian borders, emerging in the 1980s under a military dictatorship; a rebuke in the sense that the reach of metal music and metal music studies can no longer be confined to the global North.  This collection of chapters, translated from Spanish, shows that the Argentinean metal scene is deeply embedded in a social and political currency that reaches far beyond its borders. The hope is that this work paves the way for an increased attention to metal music subcultures, one that generates new knowledge for a truly global audience.'

Emiliano Scaricaciottoli is professor at the University of Buenos Aires. He is the coordinator for the Group for Interdisciplinary Research on Argentinian Heavy Metal (GIIHMA) and has edited two books of essays and another seven productions on rock and metal in Argentina.Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor of social-community psychology at Florida International University. He is the coeditor of the journal Metal Music Studies and the director of the documentary film Songs of Injustice: Heavy Metal Music in Latin America.Daniel Nevárez Araújo holds a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst as well as master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.

• Preface to the Second Edition viiGroup for Interdisciplinary Research on Argentinian Heavy Metal (GIIHMA)Foreword ixEmiliano ScaricaciottoliTranslator’s Note xiiiJuan Manuel López BaioIntroduction: A Window into Heavy Metal Scholarship in the Global South xvNelson Varas-Díaz, Daniel Nevárez Araújo, and Emiliano Scaricaciottoli1. Heavy Metal as a Subculture in Argentina: Identity and Resistance 2Gustavo Torreiro2. Genre Violence: Argentinean Heavy Metal in the Music Market 16Luciano Scarrone3. Heavenly Hosts and Other Demons: Reflections Concerning aDifficult and Transversal Relationship in the History of Our Heavy Music 28Gito Minore4. Walkabout, Just Walking about for the Sake of Walking: The Journeyas an Ethos in the Poetics of Ricardo Iorio 46Manuel Bernal and Diego Caballero5. Passion and Ethics: A Space for Voice and Tradition in Iorio’s Lyrics 58Juan Ignacio Pisano6. The Reason Behind My Writing: Another Day of Being 72Ezequiel Alasia7. Piedra Libre: Referential Tensions in Argentinean Heavy MetalLyrics Since the Political Crisis of 2001/2002 84Emiliano ScaricaciottoliNotes on Contributors 100

'This book asserts that metal music is part of Argentinian culture. It is a compelling read, as both an illuminating and a pointed rebuke. Illuminating in that it opens a window onto a contained and vibrant subculture kept within Argentinian borders, emerging in the 1980s under a military dictatorship; a rebuke in the sense that the reach of metal music and metal music studies can no longer be confined to the global North.  This collection of chapters, translated from Spanish, shows that the Argentinean metal scene is deeply embedded in a social and political currency that reaches far beyond its borders. The hope is that this work paves the way for an increased attention to metal music subcultures, one that generates new knowledge for a truly global audience.'