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WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR METAL MUSIC STUDIES' BEST BOOK AWARD 2025.For many fans, metal was visual before it was aural. This book explores the visual dimensions of metal music from the specific socio-historic, geographic, and political positionality of Latin America and the Caribbean where this visual register allows creators and consumers to engage in four distinct strategies (i.e., seeing, revealing, inverting, and appearing) as part of what the authors have termed “extreme decolonial dialogues.” They support their position through a diverse lens that examines essential aspects of the visual dimensions of metal music: album artwork, clothing, film, sites, and activist practices.
Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor of global and sociocultural studies at Florida International University. Daniel Nevárez Araújo is assistant professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico.
Table of ContentsIntroductionA Synesthetic ExperiencePablo TrangoneSinger – Arraigo (Argentina)PART ONE: SEEINGChapter 1Seeing Metal Music: Notes Regarding an Ontological ActPART TWO: REVEALINGChapter 2Documentary Film and Metal Music ElsewhereChapter 3Caribbean Metal and Colonial Truth-TellingChapter 4Metal Shirts in Latin America and the Caribbean: Frayed, Faded, Weathered, AlivePART THREE: INVERTINGChapter 5Metal Music / Indigenous BodiesChapter 6¡Al Machete!: Images of Resistance in Caribbean Metal MusicChapter 7:Humor and the Disruptive Hybridization of Visual Conventions in Our Metal MusicPART FOUR: APPEARINGChapter 8Metal Activism in Latin America and the CaribbeanChapter 9An Invitation to an Ethics of AffrontBibliographyAbout the Authors
A watershed work on metal, protest, and cultural identity of the Western hemisphere sector of the Global South . . . a must read for heavy metal devotees, scholars, and researchers.
Nelson Varas-Díaz, Niall W.R. Scott, Bryan A Bardine, Nelson Varas-Diaz, USA) Bardine, Professor Bryan A (University of Dayton, Ohio, Niall W. R. Scott, Bryan A. Bardine
Nelson Varas-Díaz, Niall W.R. Scott, Bryan A Bardine, Nelson Varas-Diaz, USA) Bardine, Professor Bryan A (University of Dayton, Ohio, Niall W. R. Scott, Bryan A. Bardine
Nelson Varas-Díaz, Niall W.R. Scott, Bryan A Bardine, Nelson Varas-Diaz, USA) Bardine, Professor Bryan A (University of Dayton, Ohio, Niall W. R. Scott, Bryan A. Bardine