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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bronfman, Alejandra, 1962- editor.

Wood, Andrew Grant, editor.

Series:

Pitt Latin American series.

Pitt Latin American Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and culture--Latin America.

Mass media and culture.

Mass media and culture--Caribbean Area.

Radio broadcasting--Latin America.

Radio broadcasting.

Radio broadcasting--Caribbean Area.

Sound in mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Outside of music, the importance of sound and listening have been greatly overlooked in Latin American history. Visual media has dominated cultural studies, affording an incomplete record of the modern era. This edited 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. Sonic media, and radio in particular, have become primary tools for contesting political issues. In that vein, the contributors view the control of radio transmission and those who manipulate its content for political gain. Conversely, they show how, in neoliberal climates, radio programs have exposed corruption and provided a voice for activism. 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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction: Media, Sound, and Culture - Alejandra Bronfman &amp

Andrew Grant Wood

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

2. Radio Transvestism and the Gendered Soundscape in Buenos Aires, 1930s-1940s - Christine Ehrick

Part II. 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

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

5. Music, Media Spectacle, and the Idea of Democracy: The Case of DJ Kermit's "Góber"

Part III. The Sonics of Public Spaces

6. Alba: Musical Temporality in the Carnival of Oruro, Bolivia - Gonzalo Araoz

7. Such a Noise!: Fireworks and the Soundscapes of Two Veracruz Festivals - Andrew Grant Wood

Postscript: Sound Representation: Nation, Translation, Memory - Michele Hilmes

Notes

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822977957

0822977958

OCLC:

805418933