On Site, in Sound - Performance Geographies in America Latina

Kirstie A. Dorr is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

List of contents

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Thinking Site in Sound  1
1. Sounding Place Over Time: On the Sonic Transits of "El Cóndor Pasa"  25
2. Putumayo and Its Discontents: The Andean Music Industry as a World Music Geography  64
3. (Inter)national Stages, Mujeres Bravas, and the Spatial Politics of Diaspora  95
4. "You Can't Have a Revolution without Songs: Neighborhood Soundscapes and Multiscalar Activism in La Misión  145
Epilogue. Musical Pirates, Sonic Debts, and Future Geographies of Transit  175
Notes  189
Bibliography  217
Index  236

About the author

Kirstie A. Dorr is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

Summary

Focusing on the hemispheric circulation of South American musical cultures, Kirstie A. Dorr examines the spatiality of sound and the ways in which the sonic is bound to perceptions and constructions of geographic space, showing how people can use music and sound to challenge and transform dominant conceptions of place.

Product details

• Authors: Kirstie Dorr, Kirstie A Dorr, Kirstie A. Dorr
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780822368557
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6855-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Refiguring American Music; Refiguring American Music
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history