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This edited collection is an interdisciplinary study of heavy metal culture in Argentina between 1983 and 2002. Contributors address the music's rituals, circulations, cultural products, lyrics and intertexts, allowing readers to rethink the place of national heavy metal within Argentinean politics and economics, after the end of the dictatorship.
About the author
Emiliano Scaricaciottoli is a writer and professor of literary theory at the University of Buenos Aires and the National University of the Arts. Coordinator of GIIHMA and SPERAC.
Contact: Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)/Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA), Fragata Sarmiento 16, CABA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Nelson Varas-Díaz is a professor of social-community psychology at Florida International University’s Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies. He is the author of the book Decolonial Metal Music in Latin America (Intellect, 2021) and co-editor of the books Heavy Metal and the Communal Experience (Lexington Books, 2016), Heavy Metal Music in Argentina: In Black We Are Seen (Intellect, 2020) and Heavy Metal Music in Latin America: Perspectives from the Distorted South (Lexington Books, 2020). He is also the director of the documentary films Songs of Injustice: Heavy Metal Music in Latin America (2018) and Acts of Resistance: Heavy Metal Music in Latin America (2021).
Contact: Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, SIPA 330, Miami, FL 33199, USA.
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.
Summary
This edited collection is an interdisciplinary study of heavy metal culture in Argentina between 1983 and 2002. Contributors address the music’s rituals, circulations, cultural products, lyrics and intertexts, allowing readers to rethink the place of national heavy metal within Argentinean politics and economics, after the end of the dictatorship.
