Affect Affects

Music, Politics and Affect in Latin America and Beyond

Bibliographic Data

ID2651884
AuthorsAndrew Snyder (0000-0001-6914-4086, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume7
Issue2
Pages110-126
Publication date2025-06-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Extreme Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2535-3241 • E-ISSN: 2535-3241
PublisherUniversity of Oslo Library (PUBLISHER • NO)
DOI10.5617/jea.12481
OpenAlexW4411470760
LanguageEN
References cited9

This afterword considers the thematic issue 'The Affective Politics of Music in Latin America,' published by the Journal of Extreme Anthropology. I begin by questioning the frame of Latin America as space of inquiry for understanding the relationship between music, politics, and affect. I ask if this such a continental geography provides a coherent space for comparable case studies, and I discuss the genealogy of the construction of Latin America as a particularly affective territory. After discussing the issue's articles in relation to their primarily national frames, I place the issue within a larger affective turn in Latin American studies and festive studies. I then discuss my forthcoming book project on Brazilian music in Portugal, which, by theorizing 'postcolonial intimacy,' seeks to expand affect theory in relation to music and politics beyond national frames. Lastly, I consider the import of affect theory to Latin American musicians themselves, arguing that the fundamental implication of affect theory, that feeling has an impact, are obvious to musicians, who have always self-consciously used music's affects for political purposes

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Feeling · Latin Americans · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Communication · Diverse Musicological Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Music History and Culture · Philosophy · Politics and Society in Latin America · Psychology · Social Psychology

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