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Title Media, sound, and culture in Latin America and the Caribbean / edited by Alejandra Bronfman and Andrew Grant Wood
Published Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2012
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Description 1 online resource (160 pages)
Series Pitt Latin American Studies
Pitt Latin American series.
Contents Introduction: Media, sound, and culture / Alejandra Bronfman & Andrew Grant Wood -- Part I. 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 -- Part II. The media of politics. 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 -- Part III. 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Radio broadcasting -- Caribbean Area
Radio broadcasting -- Latin America
Sound in mass media.
Mass media and culture -- Caribbean Area
Mass media and culture -- Latin America
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
HISTORY -- General.
Mass media and culture
Radio broadcasting
Sound in mass media
Caribbean Area
Latin America
Form Electronic book
Author Wood, Andrew Grant, 1958-
Bronfman, Alejandra, 1962-
ISBN 9780822977957
0822977958
1306944449
9781306944441
0822961873
9780822961871