Heavy Metal Music in Latin America: Perspectives from the Distorted South - Paperback

by Nelson Varas-Díaz (Editor), Daniel Nevárez Araújo (Editor), Eliut Rivera-Segarra (Editor)

This book brings together researchers from twelve countries in Latin America to reflect on the social dimensions of metal music in Latin America. An extreme musical genre for an extreme region, the contributors explore how issues like colonialism, dictatorships, violence, ethnic extermination and political persecution have shaped heavy metal music.

Author Biography

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.