Heavy Metal Music in Argentina

'This book asserts that metal music is part of Argentinian culture. It is a compelling read, as both an illuminating and a pointed rebuke. Illuminating in that it opens a window onto a contained and vibrant subculture kept within Argentinian borders, emerging in the 1980s under a military dictatorship; a rebuke in the sense that the reach of metal music and metal music studies can no longer be confined to the global North.  This collection of chapters, translated from Spanish, shows that the Argentinean metal scene is deeply embedded in a social and political currency that reaches far beyond its borders. The hope is that this work paves the way for an increased attention to metal music subcultures, one that generates new knowledge for a truly global audience.' -- Dr Niall Scott, Reader in Philosophy and popular culture, University of Central Lancashire

'This is an indispensable collection for anyone who cares about metal in the global south, or about music and politics in general. A fascinating, groundbreaking contribution to the emerging field of global metal studies.'

-- Jeremy Wallach, Professor, Bowling Green State University

'The volume brings together seven works by eight authors who deal in depth with various aspects of heavy metal music and culture in the South American country. [...] As Scaricaciottoli, Varas-Diaz and Nevárez Araujo point out in the introduction, the importance of this work is based on the understanding that metal music in Argentina has built its own culture, a culture from the south that should be understood not as an appendix or derivation of their counterparts in the global north, and that their political dimension is inextricably linked to processes of emancipation and social change.'

-- Sergio Miranda Bonilla, Tachas 451 - Es Lo Cotidiano [translated]

'Heavy Metal Music in Argentina: In Black We Are Seen works on the axis of the social and political implications of heavy metal in our country. In that already stale controversy that places the genre within a deaf bell that separates it from the historical reference and its production conditions, the essays highlight its political will and focus on the working class represented in a lyrical corpus that starts in post-dictatorship, extends to the crisis of 2001 and a few more years. [...] The publication of this book in English is an exceptional opportunity to make visible in the transnational field the studies on heavy metal by Argentine researchers who work from other reading parameters, crossed by their experience as well as by their critical apparatus, looking from the inside and not with a magnifying glass or tweezers to keep your fingers clean.'

-- Sandra Gasparini, Código y Frontera