[ANPPOM-Lista] Propostas podem ser em português. Routledge Handbook of Music, Culture and Politics in Latin America

[Martha Ulhôa]

Call for Chapter Proposals
Routledge Handbook of Music, Culture and Politics in Latin America
Edited by Christian Spencer
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Espinosa and Laura Jordán González
Proposals due: November 23th, 2023
Proposal
In recent decades, Latin America has experienced new cycles of political
and cultural crisis in which music and sound have played an important role.
More and more, allegedly empowered citizens turn sound and musical genres
into a means to make cultural criticism and propose new social agendas. At
the same time, the transformative potential of music seems to be disavowed
when considering both the commodification of political expressions by the
market, and their control and co-option as forms of official culture by the
state and its institutions.
However, time and again, populations appropriate space and create new
symbols that the subaltern classes use and defend. In this context, sound
and music are a central locus of enunciation to read and imagine new
scenarios and realities for the active and convulsed Latin American
societies.
The aim of a Routledge Handbook is to publish a comprehensive, must-have
survey of a core sub-discipline which addresses landmarks in the field, but
also maps out the emerging critical terrain and is aimed at the library
market. This particular handbook seeks to gather a representative set of
research-based texts about the relationships between sound, music and
conflict. The book will focus on studies across the intersections of
culture, music, politics, cultural and sound studies in Latin America, with
special attention to those who can establish a dialogue between the local
and the global.
The book is motivated by questions that have fostered local and global
debate on the development of music and the social crisis on the continent
in the last decades, such as:
- Does the political crisis have specific associated sounds and musics?
- What type of sound and listening practices have contributed to
democracies, dictatorships and/or wars?
- How has music historically participated in shaping social struggles and
political transformations?
- What is music’s impact on the promotion of social and environmental
rights?
The editors invite scholars from different parts of the world to contribute
with their research about Latin America, understood as a region
geographically divided into islands and continents, with great linguistic
diversity, multiple religions, and intense cultural, union and citizen
activity. We are especially interested in chapters that can dialogue with
decolonial theories, gender issues, cultural objects and artifacts, and
contested epistemologies from which the cultural map of the region has been
imagined or drawn.
Topics
At the moment the Handbook works with some organizational sections that may
change later. Considered topics are:
- Historical: historical study cases, spanning from pre-colonial times to
present.
- The national and postnational: national, postnational and transnational
debates; populism, indigenism, multiculturalism and diversity policies.
- Biopolitics: state, social control, biopolitics and necropolitics.
- Space: Geography, territory, space and place across Latin America.
- Human rights: Human rights, political detention, peacebuilding,
political/physical violence, memory, solidarity and reparation. under/post
Latin American dictatorships and wars.
- Unionism and workers: forms of organization, music and labor,
revolutionary processes.
- Social movements and music: Nueva Canción / New Song, Canción Protesta /
Protest song, Canto Nuevo, international and transnational song movements
outside LA
- Activisms, artivisms and performance: musical and social activism,
political performances, flash mobs, dance interventions in public spaces,
revival and post revival dance in/of the Andean cultures.
- Environment: music/sound, environmental struggles and climate change.
- Indigenous song movements, recognition, mediation, urban identity,
decolonization, anti-Racism and others.
- Sound and political crisis: sonic communities, listening, noise, acoustic
colonialism and justice, Latin American social outbursts.
- Feminisms: feminisms, intersectionality, women and LGBTIQ+ participation
and disputes.
- Theoretical issues: power, ideology, and political thought,
(post)marxism, new versions of structuralism and pragmatics, new issues on
the theory of cultural crisis.
Deadlines and other info:
Please send your proposals to musicandpolitics.latinamerica em gmail.com by
November 23, 2023. Keep in mind:
Proposals can be up to 750 words, either in English, Spanish, French or
Portuguese, addressing: a) the topic and study case you want to explore, b)
methods, theories implied in the proposal and short bibliography of no more
than 10 entries.
Include a brief, up-to-date bio of no more than 300 words.
Selected authors will be invited to write a full chapter in English
following Routledge Guidelines. The book will most likely be published in
2026 and the selection of chapters will follow the principles of gender
parity and geographic representativeness.


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