[iberoamericanmusiclist] New Book: The Archive and the Aural City. Sound, Knowledge, and the Politics of Listening

[Madrid-Gonzalez, Alejandro]

Dear friends and colleagues,

I am happy to announce the publication of my book The Archive and the Aural City. Sound, Knowledge, and the Politics of Listening (Duke: Sign, Storage, Transmission series), available for free download in open access: https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3561/The-Archive-and-the-Aural-CitySound-Knowledge-and?fbclid=IwY2xjawNWV6ZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHuoZOR4SxhnsPBEaKzITu_9HqpkwcVuLpDwpBV0MNj65VMC8qmkSaH04ct5m_aem_wizHzkJ98wc7nkO_3Q5eCQ

The Archive and the Aural City. Sound, Knowledge, and the Politics of Listening traces a new path in how we think about archives—not as silent repositories of visual or textual heritage, but as repositories of sound that were often never intended to be heard. Building on Ángel Rama’s concept of the Lettered City, Madrid introduces the idea of the Aural City, a Latin American urban intellectual formation in which listening and sonic practice are central to creating, circulating, and contesting forms of knowledge. From the national sound archives of Latin America to colonial audio collections abroad, sound exhibitions, instruments, and digital listening projects, Madrid shows how urban spaces themselves are shaped by sonic memory—and how these aural archives can subvert dominant narratives of nationhood or colonial legacy while fostering new spaces for inclusive intellectual exchange and collective political action. The Archive and the Aural City invites us to listen differently to history, urban life, and archives. ——Southwest Humanities

Best regards,

Alejandro L. Madrid, Ph.D.
Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music and Chair
Department of Music
3 Oxford Street
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
https://music.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/alejandro-l-madrid/

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