Defiant Sounds: Heavy Metal Music in the Global South: Extreme Sounds Studies: Global Socio-Cultural Explorations Augustinus Aryo Lukisworo Lexington Books

Defiant Sounds

Heavy Metal Music in the Global South

Defiant Sounds

Heavy Metal Music in the Global South

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.

Contents

Introduction: Of “Metal” and Metal: A Global South Approach to Metal Studies
Daniel Nevárez Araújo, Nelson Varas-Díaz, 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-Díaz, Daniel Nevárez Araújo, 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 González-Martínez
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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Product details

Published	Mar 20 2023
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	1st
Extent	418
ISBN	9781793651860
Imprint	Lexington Books
Illustrations	21 b/w photos;
Series	Extreme Sounds Studies: Global Socio-Cultural Explorations
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

Nelson Varas-Díaz

Anthology Editor

Jeremy Wallach

Anthology Editor

Esther Clinton

Anthology Editor

Daniel Nevárez Araújo

Contributor

Augustinus Aryo Lukisworo

Contributor

Edward Banchs

Contributor

Manuela Belén Calvo

Contributor

Sage Bond

Contributor

Esther Clinton

Contributor

Pasqualina Eckerström

Contributor

Kobi Farhi

Contributor

Kevin Fellezs

Contributor

Manuel Gagneux

Contributor

Susana González-Martínez

Contributor

Didier Goossens

Contributor

Amine Hamma

Contributor

Susane Hécate

Contributor

Adil Johan

Contributor

Mark LeVine

Contributor

Tshomarelo "Vulture" Mosaka

Contributor

Daniel Nevárez Araújo

Contributor

Oki Rahadianto Sutopo

Contributor

Paula Rowe

Contributor

Anthony J. Thibodeau

Contributor

Brian Trott

Contributor

Nelson Varas-Díaz

Contributor

Jeremy Wallach

Contributor

Azmyl Yusof

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 University