Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Get Your Double Kicks on Route 666
- Part I Metal, Technology and Practice
- Part II Metal and History
- Part III Metal and Identity
- Part IV Metal Activities
- Part V Modern Metal Genres
- Part VI Global Metal
- 21 Metal in the Middle East
- 22 Asian Metal Rising
- 23 Distortions in the Last Frontier
- 24 What Has Latin American Metal Music Ever Done for Us?
- 25 Pioneers and Provocateurs
- Select Academic Bibliography
- Select Journalistic Bibliography
- Index
24 - What Has Latin American Metal Music Ever Done for Us?
A Call for an Ethics of Affront in Metal Music
from Part VI - Global Metal
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 August 2023
- The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Get Your Double Kicks on Route 666
- Part I Metal, Technology and Practice
- Part II Metal and History
- Part III Metal and Identity
- Part IV Metal Activities
- Part V Modern Metal Genres
- Part VI Global Metal
- 21 Metal in the Middle East
- 22 Asian Metal Rising
- 23 Distortions in the Last Frontier
- 24 What Has Latin American Metal Music Ever Done for Us?
- 25 Pioneers and Provocateurs
- Select Academic Bibliography
- Select Journalistic Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines one of the endeavours Latin American music has predominantly engaged in, namely decoloniality, and uses this as a bedrock to examine what we consider to be a pertinent question: What has Latin American metal ever done for the international metal scene? We believe that the answer to this question lies at the juncture of and brings forth a call for ethics in metal music. We propose that decolonial metal music in Latin America incarnates three principles linked to what we term an ethics of affront: (1) acknowledging the humanity of those oppressed by coloniality, (2) acknowledging the reality of the sociopolitical context and (3) fostering activist action as a task for metal music.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music , pp. 344 - 356Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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