Sound-Politics in São Paulo

Leonardo Cardoso (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

266 Seiten

2019
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-066009-3 (ISBN)

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How does the state separate music from noise? How can such filtering apparatus shape the content and form of sound production in the city? As a marker of co-presence to the hearing body, sound is always open to (or rather opens up) the politics of shared existence. In the throes of the post-dictatorship period, Brazil's legislative and executive branches implemented a series of sweeping measures to address quality of life concerns, including environmental pollution and urban inequality. In São Paulo, noise control became a recurrent controversy, growing in size and scale between the 1990s and 2010s. Together with the much-debated fear of crime and the socioeconomic and cultural tensions between the rich urban center and the poor peripheries, such ecological agendas against noise as a harmful pollutant have reconfigured the presence of environmental sounds in the city. In this book, Cardoso argues that the framing of specific sounds as unavoidable, unnecessary, or as harmful "noise" has been an effective strategy to organize spaces and administer group behavior in this rapidly expanding city. He focuses on two interrelated processes. First, the series of institutional regulatory mechanisms that turn sounds into the all-embracing "noise" susceptible to state intervention. Second, the constant attempts of interested groups in either attaching or detaching specific sounds (musical events, industrial noise, traffic noise, religious sounds, etc.) from regulatory scrutiny. Sound-politics is the dynamics that emerges from both processes - the channels through which sounds enter (and leave) the sphere of state regulation.

Leonardo Cardoso is an assistant professor in the Department of Performance Studies at Texas A&M University.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2019
Reihe/Serie	Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	239 x 160 mm
Gewicht	522 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	0-19-066009-0 / 0190660090
ISBN-13	978-0-19-066009-3 / 9780190660093
Zustand	Neuware