Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

by Ana María Ochoa Gautier

Book Overview

In this audacious book, Ana Mar a Ochoa Gautier explores how listening has been central to the production of notions of language, music, voice, and sound that determine the politics of life. Drawing primarily from nineteenth-century Colombian sources, Ochoa Gautier locates sounds produced by different living entities at the juncture of the human and nonhuman. Her "acoustically tuned" analysis of a wide array of texts reveals multiple debates on the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822357518
• ISBN13: 9780822357513
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 3.4" x 10.3"