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Paper short abstract:

This study investigates how toxicity has caused/provoked a reaction in terms of cultural practices. It emphasizes the historical heritage reflected in both musical compositions (from folk to punk-rock and rap) and music videos in which the primary focus is lindane toxicity.

Paper long abstract:

Lindane is currently a toxic waste spread throughout the Iberian Peninsula, as since the 1940s, it kept on moving from manufacturing areas such as O Porriño, Ansio or Sabiñánigo; to places like Amorebieta, Madrid, Barcelona, or Flix where it would be manufactured into its final product; and finally transported as a waste to Viana, Igúzquiza, Cabria, Vitoria-Gasteiz or Borobia.

This study investigates how toxicity has caused/provoked a reaction in terms of cultural practices. It emphasizes the historical heritage reflected in both musical compositions (from folk to punk-rock and rap) and music videos in which the primary focus is lindane toxicity.

The study examines: a) how the historical perspective is incorporated into these cultural practices (slow violence and environmental struggles that have been developing for more than five decades); b) how time is musically represented in the toxic discourse of lindane; and c) how "cognitive justice" and forms of citizen science are conveyed through musical language.

To conclude, the study introduces the concept of "toxic dissonance," understood as a language that makes gradual violence and spectral toxicity evident. The study goes well beyond the discipline of history to incorporate approaches from environmental humanities and intermedial ecocriticism, as well as addressing topics relating to postnormal science.