<span id="lblBookTitle" class="titles">Media, Sound, and Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean</span><br><span id="lblAuthorName" class="author">Bronfman, Alejandra and Wood, Andrew Grant</span> (eds)<br>University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012<br>
<span id="lblFullDescription" class="bodytext"><br>Outside of music, the
importance of sound and listening have been greatly overlooked in Latin
American history. Visual media has dominated cultural studies, affording
an incomplete record of the modern era. This edited volume presents an
original analysis of the role of sound in Latin American and Caribbean
societies, from the late nineteenth century to the present. The
contributors examine the importance of sound in the purveyance of power,
gender roles, race, community, religion, and populism. They also
demonstrate how sound is essential to the formation of citizenship and
nationalism.
Sonic media, and radio in particular, have become primary tools
for contesting political issues. In that vein, the contributors view the
control of radio transmission and those who manipulate its content for
political gain. Conversely, they show how, in neoliberal climates, radio
programs have exposed corruption and provided a voice for activism.
The chapters address sonic production in a variety of media:
radio, Internet, digital recordings, phonographs, speeches, carnival
performances, fireworks festivals, and the reinterpretation of sound in
literature. They examine the embodied experience of listening and its
importance to memory coding and identity formation.
This collection looks to sonic media as an essential vehicle for
transmitting ideologies, imagined communities, and culture. As the
contributors discern, sound is ubiquitous, and its study is therefore
crucial to understanding the flow of information and influence in Latin
America and globally.</span>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div>carlos palombini<br></div><a href="http://www.researcherid.com/rid/F-7345-2011" target="_blank">www.researcherid.com/rid/F-7345-2011</a><br>