Seeing Metal Music in Latin America and the Caribbean - (Extreme Sounds Studies: Global Socio-Cultural Explorations) (Hardcover)

About the Book

This book explores the visual dimensions of metal music from the specific socio-historic, geographic, and political positionality of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Book Synopsis

This book explores the visual dimensions of metal music from the specific socio-historic, geographic, and political positionality of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Review Quotes

"This incredible work of ethnography, ethnomusicology, political geography and sonic ecologies reminds us not only that heavy metal and its various subgenres have always been a quintessentially global music, but that their extreme sonic force demands and enables equally innovative and powerful forms of scholarship to explore them. Nelson Varas-Diaz and Daniel Nevárez Araújo have created a landmark work of scholarship as important to metal studies as Black Sabbath, Kill 'Em All or Number of the Beast were to the music. A must-read for any students of cultural studies, popular music studies, or connoisseur of metal the way it's supposed to be heard and seen-loud and uncompromising."

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.