Myth, Song and Indigenous Film in Northern Colombia

These lectures explored an anthropogenic history of sound during the first half of the twentieth century (up to the 1960s), a period of intense imperial expansion of the United States in Latin America and the Caribbean. In the first three lectures, Ochoa approached the centrality of media and the development of new sound technologies in such a history. Ochoa particularly focused on the transformation of the relation between histories of life, extractivism, and sound produced by sound technologies. In the last two lectures, Ochoa approached an intertwined counterarchive: that of the rise of Indigenous film and works by Indigenous intellectuals in Colombia and Brazil during the early twenty-first century and the conceptualizations of music, voice, and sound in specific works produced by them. All lectures are based on different archival and ethnographic materials from Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States.

This was the fourth of a five-part series of lectures.

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