The archive and the aural city : sound, knowledge, and the politics of listening / Alejandro L. Madrid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Madrid, Alejandro L., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Mexico--Archival resources.

Music.

Music--Latin America--Archival resources.

Music--Political aspects--Mexico.

Music--Political aspects--Latin America.

Sound recordings in ethnology--Mexico.

Sound recordings in ethnology.

Sound recordings in ethnology--Latin America.

Sound archives--Mexico--History.

Sound archives.

Sound archives--Latin America--History.

Place of Publication:

Duke University Press 2025

Summary:

"Archives and the information they contain are designed, structured, and organized according to narratives that shape the type of knowledge that their users are expected to obtain from them. Focusing on archives that inform the production and circulation of knowledge in and about Mexico and Latin America, The Archive and the Aural City highlights sound repositories as material and epistemic entities. Through the idea of the "aural city," Alejandro L. Madrid demonstrates a shift toward an aural turn in the academy, showing how this emphasis has motivated the development of a city, and individual experience, understood through sound and listening. Madrid maps archival complexes as constellations, noting their roles in this listening mode and the (post)nationalist discourses in which they are situated. From national archives in Latin America and colonial institutions abroad, to sound exhibits, instruments, Internet-based archival projects, and through a discussion of the relevance of archives in historical moments of post-truth, Madrid follows how networks of sound and listening are created and utilized. In doing so, he argues for more democratized access to knowledge and culture as a way of understanding and participating in the aural city"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Questions about the Circulation of Knowledge at the Sonic Turn

Performative Listening, Writing, Reading, and the Assemblage of Archival Constellations

Patrimony, Objectification, and Representation at Mexico's Fonoteca Nacional

Critical Constellations of the Audio-Machine in Mexico and the Performativity of Archiving/Archival Labor

Things, Sound Objects, and Legacy at the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv's Konrad T. Preuss Collection

Mexican Rarities, Disco pirata, and the Promise of a Sound Archive of Postnational Memory

Aurality, Materiality, and the Carrillo Pianos as Archives

In Search of the Aural City: Collective Action and the Invisible Sound Archive

The Relevance of Archives in Times of Post-Truth: An Essay against Nihilism in the Neoliberal Age

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781478061083

1478061081