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Myth, Song and Indigenous Film in Northern Colombia

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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...

Rethinking The Genealogies of Ambient Sound

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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...

Anthropogenic Sounds and Ethnomusicological Histories

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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...

Echoes of the Haitian Revolution: Music, Sound, and Memory, 1791-1934

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Many scholars have traced the momentous historical consequences of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), seeking to redraw Euro-American maps of the revolutionary era, complicate the relation of imperial center to colonized periphery, and historicize modern categories of race and nation. But research into the varied and vibrant musical cultures of colonial Saint-Domingue and the Haitian revolutionary period, and the subsequent global dispersion and transformation of these cultures, are sparser, especially when it...