Media, sound, & culture in Latin America and the Caribbean / edited by Alejandra Bronfman and Andrew Grant Wood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bronfman, Alejandra, 1962-

Wood, Andrew Grant, 1958-

Series:

Pitt Latin American series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and culture--Latin America.

Mass media and culture.

Mass media and culture--Caribbean Area.

Sound in mass media.

Radio broadcasting--Latin America.

Radio broadcasting.

Radio broadcasting--Caribbean Area.

Caribbean Area.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

xvi, 169 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Media, sound, and culture in Latin America and the Caribbean

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2012]

Summary:

This volume presents an original analysis of the role of sound in Latin American and Caribbean societies from the late nineteenth century to the present. The contributors examine the importance of sound in the purveyance of power, gender roles, race, community, religion, and populism. They also demonstrate how sound is essential to the formation of citizenship and nationalism.

The chapters address sonic production in a variety of media: radio, Internet, digital recordings, phonographs, speeches, carnival performances, fireworks festivals, and the reinterpretation of sound in literature. They examine the embodied experience of listening and its importance to memory coding and identity formation.

This collection looks to sonic media as an essential vehicle for transmitting ideologies, imagined communities, and culture. As the contributors discern, sound is ubiquitous, and its study is therefore crucial to understanding the flow of information and influence in Latin America and globally. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Embodied Sounds and the Sounds of Memory

1 Recovering Voices: The Popular Music Ear in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Brazil / Fernando de Sousa Rocha Rocha, Fernando de Sousa 3

2 Radio Transvestism and the Gendered SoundScape in Buenos Aires, 1930S-1940S / Christine Ehrick Ehrick, Christine 18

Part The Media of Politics

3 How to Do Things with Waves: United States Radio and Latin America in the Times of the Good Neighbor / Gisela Cramer Cramer, Gisela 37

4 Weapons of the Geek: Romantic Narratives, Sonic Technologies, and Tinkerers in 1930s Santiago, Cuba / Alejandra Bronfman Bronfman, Alejandra 55

5 Music, Media Spectacle, and the Idea of Democracy: The Case of DJ Kermit's "Gober" / Alejandro L. Madrid Madrid, Alejandro L. 71

Part III The Sonics of Public Spaces

6 Alba: Musical Temporality in the Carnival of Oruro, Bolivia / Gonzalo Araoz Araoz, Gonzalo 87

7 Such a Noise! Fireworks and the Soundscapes of Two Veracruz Festival / Andrew Grant Wood Wood, Andrew Grant 103.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822961871

0822961873

OCLC:

754713663