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Geographies of the Ear: The Cultural Politics of Sound in Contemporary Barcelona

Name: Geographies of the Ear: The Cultural Politics of Sound in Contemporary Barcelona
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 9781478032076
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Contributors:

Tania Gentic

Publisher:

Duke University Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Science, Social Science, Political Science

Book Subcategory:

Acoustics & Sound, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism

Book Topic:

European Studies

Series:

Sign, Storage, Transmission

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Release Date:

9/19/2025

ISBN 13:

9781478032076

Weight:

0.95 lbs

Size:

9.00 x 6.00 x 0.72 inches

Pages:

320

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In Geographies of the Ear, Tania Gentic examines the language and soundscape of post-Franco Barcelona to listen for the remnants of a globalized colonial ear. She theorizes "echoic memory" to understand how sound circulates from the past to the present-and from neighborhood to nation to globe-to trace how sonic practices produce and contest modernity, community identity, and democracy. Focusing on migrant and tourist accents, free radio stations, punk music, drag performances, and antigentrification protests, Gentic shows how the underground sounds in Barcelona complicate a modernizing aural imaginary of place. By thinking through the auralities present in literature, fanzines, comic books, documentary films, television and print media, popular music, public protests, and even everyday conversation, Gentic outlines the difficulties of considering the contemporary city as either the product of a monolingual national identity or a lived space easily circumscribed by geographical categories such as North, South, East, or West.

About the Author
Tania Gentic is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University and author of The Everyday Atlantic: Time, Knowledge, and Subjectivity in the Twentieth-Century Iberian and Latin American Newspaper Chronicle.

Geographies of the Ear: The Cultural Politics of Sound in Contemporary Barcelona

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