Sound Cultures and Popular Imaginaries

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

During the first decades of the 20th century Chilean workers’ movements gained strength among the popular sectors and the expansion of the press and journalism made genres like the Lira Popular products of mass distribution through the country’s urban centers. Although the links between this type of poetry and the traditions of improvised rural poetry have been studied, little has been said about how these genres are framed by the modernity of growing cities, how they recover/reproduce and take charge of the voices, music, and sounds/noises that accompany urban development.
In this panel we will work with the broadest concepts of Latin American popular culture and its possibility of multiple readings. This panel encompasses, from a multi-disciplinary perspective, the different dynamics that have been formed out of the production and consumption of sounds and silences in diverse moments of history. Having in consideration perspectives from Media Studies, Music, Literature and History, this panel presents different approaches at how sound is articulated in contexts of popular culture.
How is sound production, or its absence, articulated through the formation of popular culture? In what ways has popular culture represented, formed, and used new sonorous spaces for its own construction and representation?

Sub Track

• Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Session Organizer

• James C Staig Limidoro, University of Texas at Austin

Chair

• Megan L Thornton Velazquez, John Carroll University

Individual Presentations

• Reimagining the volcanto tradition through the music of Perrozompopo - Megan L Thornton Velazquez, John Carroll University

• Sonidos y silencios en la voz y el oído de Gabriela Mistral - James C Staig Limidoro, University of Texas at Austin

• Guerreros, Panks, and the Soundscape of The Chilean Undercommon - Carlos M Amador, Michigan Technological University

Discussant

• Francine R Masiello, University of California/Berkeley