Defiant Sounds
Heavy Metal Music in the Global South
Published on 17. March 2023
Book
Hardback
418 pages
978-1-7936-5185-3 (ISBN)
Description
Defiant Sounds: Heavy Metal Music in the Global South brings together authors working from and/or with the Global South to reflect on the roles of metal music throughout their respective regions. The essays position metal music at the epicenter of region-specific experiences of oppression marked by colonialism, ethnic extermination, political persecution, and war. More importantly, the authors stress how metal music is used throughout the Global South to face these oppressive experiences, foster hope, and promote an agenda that seeks to build a better world.
Reviews / Votes
Defiant Sounds: Heavy Metal Music in the Global South is an important book, both for metal scholarship (which is a large and expanding global community) and equally for understanding Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Oceania, and Indigenous Nations in the current world. Metal was ahead of the curve in grasping the political and cultural changes in the region. The editors are esteemed scholars of metal and globalization. -- Deena Weinstein, DePaul University This is an important book. It is not just about metal music; it gives voice to those often ignored by a Western myopic parochialism. It opens a greater transformative perspective on cultures and politics receiving the attention that is much deserved from a rising Global South. Much praise is due to this collection of essays for continuing to expand decolonial dialogue in transdisciplinary research. -- Niall W.R. Scott, Reader in Philosophy and Popular Culture, UCLan Defiant Sounds constitutes a paradigmatic shift in metal music studies and is a vital model for future studies of globalized cultures. It is a must-read for activists and students of heavy metal, and for researchers in popular culture studies, anthropology, sociology, and ethnomusicology. -- Paul Greene, Pennsylvania State UniversityMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
21 b/w photos;
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
826 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7936-5185-3 (9781793651853)
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Defiant Sounds
Heavy Metal Music in the Global South
E-Book
03/2023
1st Edition
Lexington Books
€107.99
Available for download
Nelson Varas-Diaz | Jeremy Wallach | Esther Clinton
Defiant Sounds
Heavy Metal Music in the Global South
E-Book
03/2023
1st Edition
Lexington Books
€107.99
Available for download
Persons
Nelson Varas-Diaz is professor of social-community psychology at Florida International University's Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies.
Jeremy Wallach is professor of popular culture in the School of Cultural and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University.
Esther Clinton taught in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) for sixteen years on topics ranging from traditional narrative to popular novels to advanced cultural theory. Esther's tragic, untimely death at age 50 cut short her exploration of these topics, but her many students carry on her legacy.
Daniel Nevarez Araujo is assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras.
Jeremy Wallach is professor of popular culture in the School of Cultural and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University.
Esther Clinton taught in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) for sixteen years on topics ranging from traditional narrative to popular novels to advanced cultural theory. Esther's tragic, untimely death at age 50 cut short her exploration of these topics, but her many students carry on her legacy.
Daniel Nevarez Araujo is assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras.
Content
Contents
Introduction: Of "Metal" and Metal: A Global South Approach to Metal Studies
Daniel Nevarez Araujo, Nelson Varas-Diaz, Jeremy Wallach, and Esther Clinton
Section 1: Conceptualizing the Distorted South
Chapter 1. Metal Music in the Distorted South: A Call for Defiance and Reflection
Nelson Varas-Diaz, Daniel Nevarez Araujo, Jeremy Wallach, and Esther Clinton
Section 2: Hope
Chapter 2. An Exegesis of Excess: Reverberations and Connotations of Feminisms Cartographed via Metal Music in the Global South
Susana Gonzalez-Martinez
Chapter 3. Reclaiming Aotearoa: Stories of Experimentation, Education, and Reflection in Aotearoa Indigenous Metal Music
Didier Goossens
Chapter 4. "A Whole New Type of Isolation": Resilience and Hope in the Navajo Nation Metal Scene during the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020-2021
Anthony J. Thibodeau and Sage Bond
Section 3: Social Change
Chapter 5. "We Play Heavy Metal because Our Lives Are Heavy Metal": A Generation of Metal in the Middle East and North Africa
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Introduction: Of "Metal" and Metal: A Global South Approach to Metal Studies
Daniel Nevarez Araujo, Nelson Varas-Diaz, Jeremy Wallach, and Esther Clinton
Section 1: Conceptualizing the Distorted South
Chapter 1. Metal Music in the Distorted South: A Call for Defiance and Reflection
Nelson Varas-Diaz, Daniel Nevarez Araujo, Jeremy Wallach, and Esther Clinton
Section 2: Hope
Chapter 2. An Exegesis of Excess: Reverberations and Connotations of Feminisms Cartographed via Metal Music in the Global South
Susana Gonzalez-Martinez
Chapter 3. Reclaiming Aotearoa: Stories of Experimentation, Education, and Reflection in Aotearoa Indigenous Metal Music
Didier Goossens
Chapter 4. "A Whole New Type of Isolation": Resilience and Hope in the Navajo Nation Metal Scene during the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020-2021
Anthony J. Thibodeau and Sage Bond
Section 3: Social Change
Chapter 5. "We Play Heavy Metal because Our Lives Are Heavy Metal": A Generation of Metal in the Middle East and North Africa
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