Isles of Noise: Sonic Media in the Caribbean - Brossura

Bronfman, Alejandra

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1469628694 ISBN 13: 9781469628691

Casa editrice: Univ of North Carolina Pr, 2016

Riassunto

In this media history of the Caribbean, Alejandra Bronfman traces how technology, culture, and politics developed in a region that was "wired" earlier and more widely than many other parts of the Americas. Haiti, Cuba, and Jamaica acquired radio and broadcasting in the early stages of the global expansion of telecommunications technologies. Imperial histories helped forge these material connections through which the United States, Great Britain, and the islands created a virtual laboratory for experiments in audiopolitics and listening practices.

As radio became an established medium worldwide, it burgeoned in the Caribbean because the region was a hub for intense foreign and domestic commercial and military activities. Attending to everyday life, infrastructure, and sounded histories during the waxing of an American empire and the waning of British influence in the Caribbean, Bronfman does not allow the notion of empire to stand solely for domination. By the time of the Cold War, broadcasting had become a ubiquitous phenomenon that rendered sound and voice central to political mobilization in the Caribbean nations throwing off what remained of their imperial tethers.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Alejandra Bronfman is associate professor of history at SUNY Albany and the author of Measures of Equality: Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902–1940.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of North Carolina Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1469628694
• ISBN 13: 9781469628691
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 223