BABYMETAL’S ‘MUSIC IN ACTION: REDEFINING AUTHENTICITY, DECOLONIZING METAL, DESTABILIZING ECONOMY By Carmen María Guzmán Tiguílá, B.A. A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS in English University of Alaska Anchorage August 2021 APPROVED: Daniel T. Kline, Ph.D., Committee Chair Patricia Jenkins, Ph.D., Committee Member Hiroko Harada, Ph.D., Committee Member David Bowie, Ph.D., Chair Department of English Elizabeth Dennison, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Humanities College of Arts and Sciences Mary Jo Finney, Ph.D., Dean Graduate School