<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">
<style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style>
</head>
<body dir="ltr">
<div style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof">
Dear friends and colleagues,</div>
<div style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof">
<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof">
I am happy to announce the publication of my book <i>The Archive and the Aural City. Sound, Knowledge, and the Politics of Listening</i> (Duke: Sign, Storage, Transmission series), available for free download in open access:
<a id="LPlnk909190" href="https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3561/The-Archive-and-the-Aural-CitySound-Knowledge-and?fbclid=IwY2xjawNWV6ZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHuoZOR4SxhnsPBEaKzITu_9HqpkwcVuLpDwpBV0MNj65VMC8qmkSaH04ct5m_aem_wizHzkJ98wc7nkO_3Q5eCQ">
https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3561/The-Archive-and-the-Aural-CitySound-Knowledge-and?fbclid=IwY2xjawNWV6ZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHuoZOR4SxhnsPBEaKzITu_9HqpkwcVuLpDwpBV0MNj65VMC8qmkSaH04ct5m_aem_wizHzkJ98wc7nkO_3Q5eCQ</a></div>
<div style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof">
<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof">
<i>The Archive and the Aural City. Sound, Knowledge, and the Politics of Listening
</i>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
<i>Lettered City</i>, 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.
<i>The Archive and the Aural City</i> invites us to listen differently to history, urban life, and archives. ——Southwest Humanities</div>
<div style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof">
<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof">
Best regards,</div>
<div id="Signature">
<div style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alejandro L. Madrid, Ph.D.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music and Chair</div>
<div style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
Department of Music</div>
<div style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
3 Oxford Street</div>
<div style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
Harvard University</div>
<div style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
Cambridge, MA 02138</div>
<div style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<a href="https://music.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/alejandro-l-madrid/">https://music.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/alejandro-l-madrid/</a></div>
<div style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<br>
</div>
<div style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
Editor, <a title="https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/c/currents-in-latin-american-and-iberian-music-cilam/?cc=de&lang=en&" href="https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/c/currents-in-latin-american-and-iberian-music-cilam/?cc=de&lang=en&">
Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music Series</a></div>
<div style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<br>
</div>
<div style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; color: rgb(5, 5, 5);">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Against antisemitism</span><span style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Against Islamophobia</span><span style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Against Neo-Zionism</span><span style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Against Radical Islam</span></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>