Seeing Metal Music in Latin America and the Caribbean

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.

List of contents

Table of Contents
Introduction
A Synesthetic Experience
Pablo Trangone
Singer - Arraigo (Argentina)
PART ONE: SEEING
Chapter 1
Seeing Metal Music: Notes Regarding an Ontological Act
PART TWO: REVEALING
Chapter 2
Documentary Film and Metal Music Elsewhere
Chapter 3
Caribbean Metal and Colonial Truth-Telling
Chapter 4
Metal Shirts in Latin America and the Caribbean: Frayed, Faded, Weathered, Alive
PART THREE: INVERTING
Chapter 5
Metal 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 8
Metal Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean
Chapter 9
An Invitation to an Ethics of Affront
Bibliography
About the Authors

About the author

Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor of global and sociocultural studies at Florida International University.
Daniel Nevárez Araújo is assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Puerto Rico - Río Piedras.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Nevárez Araújo, Nelson Araujo Varas-Diaz, Nelson Varas-Díaz
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.08.2024
• EAN: 9781666919783
• ISBN: 978-1-66691-978-3
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Extreme Sounds Studies: Global Socio-Cultural Explorations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous; Rock, Latin America, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Heavy Metal, Caribbean islands, Theory of music & musicology, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Popular Music, Heavy Metal music, Metal, Heavy Metal, Theory of music and musicology