Audible Geographies in Latin America Sounds of Race and Place /

• Main Author: Robbins, Dylon Lamar (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Ethnology-Latin America.; Latin America-History.; Culture.; Technology.; Communication.; Latin American literature.; Latin American Culture.; Latin American History.; Culture and Technology.; Media and Communication.; Latin American/Caribbean Literature.

Audible Geographies in Latin America examines the audibility of place as a racialized phenomenon. It argues that place is not just a geographical or political notion, but also a sensorial one, shaped by the specific profile of the senses engaged through different media. Through a series of cases, th...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Notes for an Audible Geography
• 2. Clinical Listening and Corporeal Resonance in the Brazilian Belle Époque
• 3. Hearing Voices, Seeing Tongues: Speech as Gestural Economy in Havana (1899-1924)
• 4. Rhythm, Diasporas, and the National Popular State
• 5. Noises in Cuban Revolutionary Cinema
• 6. Epilogue: (Re)Sonorous Tempest.