Seeing Metal Music in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Author: Araujo, Daniel Nevarez
- Author: Varas-Diaz, Nelson
Seeing Metal Music in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Author: Araujo, Daniel Nevarez
- Author: Varas-Diaz, Nelson
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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.
Contents
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- A Synesthetic Experience
- Pablo Trangone
- Singer – Arraigo (Argentina)
- PART ONE: SEEING
- Chapter 1Seeing Metal Music: Notes Regarding an Ontological Act
- PART TWO: REVEALING
- Chapter 2Documentary Film and Metal Music Elsewhere
- Chapter 3Caribbean Metal and Colonial Truth-Telling
- Chapter 4Metal Shirts in Latin America and the Caribbean: Frayed, Faded, Weathered, Alive
- PART THREE: INVERTING
- Chapter 5Metal Music / Indigenous Bodies
- Chapter 6¡Al Machete!: Images of Resistance in Caribbean Metal Music
- Chapter 7:Humor and the Disruptive Hybridization of Visual Conventions in Our Metal Music
- PART FOUR: APPEARING
- Chapter 8Metal Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Chapter 9An Invitation to an Ethics of Affront
- Bibliography
- About the Authors
