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Title:

Media, sound, & culture in Latin America and the Caribbean / edited by Alejandra Bronfman and Andrew Grant Wood.

Publisher:

University of Pittsburgh Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xvi, 169 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Mass media and culture--Latin America.
Mass media and culture--Caribbean Area.
Sound in mass media.
Radio broadcasting--Latin America.
Radio broadcasting--Caribbean Area.

Other Authors:

Bronfman, Alejandra, 1962-
Wood, Andrew Grant, 1958-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-162) and index.

Contents:

Postcript. Sound representation : nation, translation, memory / Michele Hilmes. Embodied sounds and the sounds of memory. Recovering voices : the popular music ear in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Brazil / Fernando de Sousa Rocha -- Radio transvestism and the gendered soundscape in Buenos Aires, 1930s-1940s / Christine Ehrick -- The media of politcs. How to do things with waves : United States radio and Latin America in the times of the good neighbor / Gisela Cramer -- Weapons of the geek : romantic narratives, sonic technologies, and tinkerers in 1930s Santiago, Cuba / Alejandra Bronfman -- Music, media spectacle, and the idea of democracy : the case of DJ Kermit's Góber / Alejandro L. Madrid -- The sonics of public spaces. Alba : musical temporality in the carnival of Oruro, Bolivia / Gonzalo Araoz -- Such a noise! Fireworks and the soundscapes of two Veracruz festivals / Andrew Grant Wood -- Postcript. Sound representation : nation, translation, memory / Michele Hilmes.

Series:

Pitt Latin American series

ISBN:

0822961873 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780822961871 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)754713663

LCCN:

2011048868

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)