Decolonial Metal Music in Latin America

Nelson Varas-Díaz engages in ethnographic work throughout Latin America to explore how heavy metal music is used to challenge the region's colonial past and present. Through extensive research in nine countries, his work documents how this musical genre allows listeners and musicians to engage in what he calls 'extreme decolonial dialogues' that challenge historical and ongoing forms of oppression. 30 b/w illus.

About the author

Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University. He is the director of the documentary film Songs of Injustice: Heavy Metal Music in Latin America and coeditor of Heavy Metal Music in Argentina: In Black We Are Seen, also published by Intellect.

Product details

• Authors: Nelson (Florida International University) Varas-Diaz, Nelson Varas-Díaz
• Publisher: Intellect Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.03.2023
• EAN: 9781789387568
• ISBN: 978-1-78938-756-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 244 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 462 g
• Series: Advances in Metal Music and Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous