Geographies of the ear : the cultural politics of sound in contemporary Barcelona / Tania Gentic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gentic, Tania, 1978- author. .

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Sign, storage, transmission

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics--Political aspects--Spain--Barcelona.

Sociolinguistics.

Sociolinguistics--Spain--Barcelona.

Multiculturalism--Spain--Barcelona.

Multiculturalism.

Language and languages--Political aspects.

Language and languages.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 305 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Cultural politics of sound in contemporary Barcelona

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Geographies of the Ear examines the multiple, overlapping, and often contradictory sonic landscapes of Barcelona and what happens when these historically and ideologically coded sounds come into contact within the fraught urban space of the city. Tania Gentic terms these disjunctive acts of listening "echoic memory," a process where accents and sounds are resignified in ways that both highlight and obfuscate their historical entanglement with colonialism. While Barcelona was a bastion of resistance against Francoist fascism-and the notion of a linguistically homogenous centralized Spanish state-the city was also an important economic node in the global colonial era, a node which has now become globalized through large flows of immigrants into the city. Immigration from Africa, Latin America, and poorer parts of Spain with their own dialects has rendered Barcelona a polyglot city, producing a linguistic diversity that can come into tension with Catalan linguistic separatism. Examining the politics of accents during the Spanish transition to democracy; how public trans performance disrupted the production of orderly urban space during the transition; how avant-garde radio challenged the nationalist project; and contemporary Barcelona anti-gentrification movement's aural riots, Gentic maps the ways that sounds and accents index complex, transhistorical debates about colonialism, immigration, and democracy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Travel, Race, and the Colonial Sleight of Ear

Of Immigrants and Accents

Radiophonic Restlessness

Echoic Memories of Protest and the Acoustic Limits of Democracy

The Humble Ear and the Shape of Sound.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Gentic, Tania, 1978- Geographies of the ear.

ISBN:

9781478061021

1478061022

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