Heavy Metal Music in Latin America

Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor of social-community psychology in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University. Daniel Nevárez Araújo received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Eliut Rivera Segarra is clinical psychologist and assistant professor at the Ponce Health Sciences University in Puerto Rico.

SECTION I: UNDERSTANDING METAL MUSIC IN LATIN AMERICA 5

Chapter 1 Conceptualizing the Distorted South: How to Understand Metal Music and Its Scholarship in Latin America

Nelson Varas-Díaz, Daniel Nevárez Araújo, and Eliut Rivera-Segarra

SECTION II: A SOUNDTRACK FOR A VIOLENT CONTEXT 37

Chapter 2 Decomposición Cerebral: The Salvadoran Civil War and the Birth of Salvadoran Brutal Death Metal

Christian M. Pack

Chapter 3 Dictatorship and Metal in Chile: A Causal Relationship?

Maximiliano Sánchez Mondaca

Chapter 4 The Role of Death Metal in the Colombian Armed Conflict: The Case of the Band Masacre

Pedro Manuel Lagos Chacón

Chapter 5 Sounds of Exclusion and Seclusion: Peruvian Metal as a Model for Cultural Self-Segregation

José Ignacio López Ramírez Gastón

SECTION III: DECOLONIZING LOCAL HISTORIES THROUGH MUSIC 131

Chapter 6 The Metal Scene in Havana, Cuba: An Assessment of Its Cultural Development from 2007 to 2017

Miriela Fernández Lozano

Chapter 7 In the Shadow of the Dictatorship: A Historical Approach to Uruguayan Heavy Metal

María Ximena Rodríguez Molinari

Chapter 8 Metal and Politics in Argentina: A Study into the Audienceship Surrounding Ricardo Iorio

Manuela Belén Calvo

Chapter 9 America, Avenge Yourself: The Emergence of Combative Discourse and Other Recent Directions in Contemporary Argentinian Metal (An Exploration in Three Movements)

Emiliano Scaricaciottoli

SECTION IV: MARGINALITY AND CULTURES OF RESISTANCE 217

Chapter 10 The Transfiguration of the Deity Maximón as a Practice of Resistance in Metal from San Pedro Sacatepéquez, San Marcos, Guatemala

Mario Efraín Castañeda Maldonado

Chapter 11 La Periferia: Marginal Contexts for Metal Music in the State of México

Alfredo Nieves Molina

Chapter 12 Differences in the Sociopolitical Perspectives of Brazilian and European Völkisch Metal

Guilherme Alfradique Klausner

SECTION V: LIBERATION THROUGH METAL MUSIC 285

Chapter 13 “A Scream that Makes Us Visible”: Latin American Heavy Metal Music and Liberation Psychology

Eliut Rivera-Segarra, Jeffrey W. Ramos, and Nelson Varas-Díaz

Chapter 14 Metal Migration: The Latin American Diasporic Experience in Heavy Metal

Daniel Nevárez Araújo