Sounding the Americas
The Politics and Aesthetics of Racialised Acoustics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2170383 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 479-487 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569325.2020.1841612 |
| OpenAlex | W3120160290 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
In this essay I consider the politics and aesthetics of racialised acoustics throughout the Americas through debates generated by two recent innovative books in Latin American and Caribbean sound studies, Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and The New Neighborhood of the Americas by Tom McEnaney and Audible Geographies in Latin America: Sounds of Race and Place by Dylon Lamar Robbins. These two books take interdisciplinary, transhistorical, multilingual, and transnational approaches to sound technologies and the politics and aesthetics of mediated voices. In their work, we see the relationship between sound technologies, white or whitening political and aesthetic hegemonies, and formative practices that resist, interfere with, and transform these hegemonies across what McEnaney refers to as the “sonic color line
Acoustics · Aesthetics · Art · Formative assessment · Latin Americans · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sound (geography · Visual arts · White (mutation · Diverse Musicological Studies · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |