Ana María Ochoa Gautier
Biographic Data
| ID | 121306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ana María Ochoa Gautier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ana María Ochoa |
| FAMILY NAME | Gautier |
| SIGNATURE | GAUTIER A M O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-1902-348X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hydrophones and the Historical Making of a Transatlantic Caribbean Oceanic Anthropocene
During the Second World War and the Cold War, the U.S. military developed a hydrophone array system called SOSUS (Sound Surveillance System) to listen underwater in the ocean. This arose in response to the threat posed by enemy submarines. But this technology was also fundamental for listening to oceanic living beings. This paper explores the history of the invention of SOSUS as fundamental to redefining a subaquatic Caribbean by tracing the hist…
Music, Language, Aurality
Recent work in anthropology has attended to the imbrication of music, sound, listening, and language in research on, and from, Latin America and the Caribbean, as part of a broader movement across regions. In this article, we argue that these relations have their own intellectual genealogies in Latin America and the Caribbean, which have often been neglected in studies written about the region. We focus on recent theorization of aurality-the imme…
On the Ethnographic Ear
Recycling Audibility as Sound Design for Life
In Latin America and the Caribbean the historical audiovisual and audio-recorded ethnomusicological archive is being recycled under different political and aesthetic imperatives. Indigenous and Afrodescendant peoples reappropriate and transform the archive through strategic decolonising practices that recast the political and aesthetic conditions of audibility for which ethnographic sounds were originally produced. In colonial and postcolonial se…
Acoustic Multinaturalism, the Value of Nature, and the Nature of Music in Ecomusicology
This essay is a critique of the notions of nature and culture, as operationalized by the recently named field ecomusicology. While fields such as anthropology and history have questioned the idea of nature, ecomusicology, on the contrary, has explored its significance, producing an ecology of music and sound that reaffirms the term and, along with it, a multicultural account of diversity that takes the Western notion of culture as a viable concep…
Aurality
1911) wrote a letter from Paris to Miguel Antonio Caro , his fellow grammarian and president of Colombia from 1892 to 1898, who was then residing in Bogotá: "Do you know if somebody has thought about collecting [in Colombia] housemaid tales such as those collected by Grimm and Andersen?"(Cuervo 1978, 111).What was initially posed as a question soon became an affirmation.The apparent lack of documentation of a collected folk corpus has often led t…
Disencounters between Music’s Allure and the Expediency of Culture in Colombia
In recent years the idea of “culture as resource” has been hailed as a new epistemological paradigm for assigning value and significance to artistic practice. This article acknowledges this idea as determining values assigned to art in the recent context of globalization. Yet it questions the heuristic hold of such an episteme for the interpretation of some cultural practices, especially those of musicians in a world where many of them are not so…
Media , Citizenship, and Democracy in Mexico and Colombia
La globalización imaginada de Néstor García Canclini
Reseña escrita por Ana María Ochoa Gautier
Acoustic Multinaturalism, the Value of Nature, and the Nature of Music in Ecomusicology
This essay is a critique of the notions of nature and culture, as operationalized by the recently named field ecomusicology. While fields such as anthropology and history have questioned the idea of nature, ecomusicology, on the contrary, has explored its significance, producing an ecology of music and sound that reaffirms the term and, along with it, a multicultural account of diversity that takes the Western notion of culture as a viable concep…
Music, Language, Aurality
Recent work in anthropology has attended to the imbrication of music, sound, listening, and language in research on, and from, Latin America and the Caribbean, as part of a broader movement across regions. In this article, we argue that these relations have their own intellectual genealogies in Latin America and the Caribbean, which have often been neglected in studies written about the region. We focus on recent theorization of aurality-the imme…
La globalización imaginada de Néstor García Canclini
Reseña escrita por Ana María Ochoa Gautier
Media , Citizenship, and Democracy in Mexico and Colombia
Disencounters between Music’s Allure and the Expediency of Culture in Colombia
In recent years the idea of “culture as resource” has been hailed as a new epistemological paradigm for assigning value and significance to artistic practice. This article acknowledges this idea as determining values assigned to art in the recent context of globalization. Yet it questions the heuristic hold of such an episteme for the interpretation of some cultural practices, especially those of musicians in a world where many of them are not so…
Aurality
1911) wrote a letter from Paris to Miguel Antonio Caro , his fellow grammarian and president of Colombia from 1892 to 1898, who was then residing in Bogotá: "Do you know if somebody has thought about collecting [in Colombia] housemaid tales such as those collected by Grimm and Andersen?"(Cuervo 1978, 111).What was initially posed as a question soon became an affirmation.The apparent lack of documentation of a collected folk corpus has often led t…
Acoustic Multinaturalism, the Value of Nature, and the Nature of Music in Ecomusicology
This essay is a critique of the notions of nature and culture, as operationalized by the recently named field ecomusicology. While fields such as anthropology and history have questioned the idea of nature, ecomusicology, on the contrary, has explored its significance, producing an ecology of music and sound that reaffirms the term and, along with it, a multicultural account of diversity that takes the Western notion of culture as a viable concep…
On the Ethnographic Ear
Recycling Audibility as Sound Design for Life
In Latin America and the Caribbean the historical audiovisual and audio-recorded ethnomusicological archive is being recycled under different political and aesthetic imperatives. Indigenous and Afrodescendant peoples reappropriate and transform the archive through strategic decolonising practices that recast the political and aesthetic conditions of audibility for which ethnographic sounds were originally produced. In colonial and postcolonial se…
Music, Language, Aurality
Recent work in anthropology has attended to the imbrication of music, sound, listening, and language in research on, and from, Latin America and the Caribbean, as part of a broader movement across regions. In this article, we argue that these relations have their own intellectual genealogies in Latin America and the Caribbean, which have often been neglected in studies written about the region. We focus on recent theorization of aurality-the imme…
Hydrophones and the Historical Making of a Transatlantic Caribbean Oceanic Anthropocene
During the Second World War and the Cold War, the U.S. military developed a hydrophone array system called SOSUS (Sound Surveillance System) to listen underwater in the ocean. This arose in response to the threat posed by enemy submarines. But this technology was also fundamental for listening to oceanic living beings. This paper explores the history of the invention of SOSUS as fundamental to redefining a subaquatic Caribbean by tracing the hist…
Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Music History and Culture (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works)