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 of English at the University of Puerto Rico.

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