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The first collection of essays on Argentine metal music. This is an interdisciplinary study of Argentina's heavy metal subculture between 1983 and 2002, a period in which metal music withstood the onslaught of military dictatorship and survived the neoliberal policies of bourgeois democracy.
Edited by leading researchers in the field, this collection addresses the music's rituals, circulations, cultural products, lyrics, and intertexts, allowing readers to rethink the genre's place within Argentinean politics and economics. Exclusively written by members of the Group for Interdisciplinary Research on Argentinian Heavy Metal (GIIHMA) in a communal approach to scholarship, the book echoes the working-class voices that marked early post-dictatorship metal music in Argentina, exploring heavy metal music as a catalyst for social change and a site for engaging political reflection. This is a fascinating work of scholarship and a groundbreaking contribution to the emerging field of global metal studies.
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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.
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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.
