Quarterly of the Colorado School of Mines

• Record Nr.: UNINA990009033710403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Golden, : [s.n.]
• ISSN: 0010-1753
• Disciplina: 622/.08
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Periodico

Sonic strategies : performing Mexico's war on drugs, mourning, and feminicide / / Christina Baker

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911049136903321
• Autore: Baker Christina <1985->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Vanderbilt University Press, 2024
• ISBN: 0-8265-0601-1
• Disciplina: 700.972
• Soggetti: Performance art - Political aspects - Mexico; Drug control - Mexico; Sound - Psychological aspects; Sound in art
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Sonic Disidentifications and a Mexicanidad for the Twenty-First Century -- Listening to Mexico's War: Necroauralities in Three Movements -- Antigone's Requiem: Sounds against Death and Disappearance -- Soundtracks of an Afterlife: Radical Geographies of Hope and Survival.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Sonic Strategies highlights what author Christina Baker refers to as the "sonic strategies" employed by contemporary performance artists in Mexico in response to the violence surrounding the government's so-; called War on Drugs. The introduction presents the theme, and each subsequent chapter focuses on the works of one or more performance artist. Taken together, the case studies illuminate how critiques of the nation's rising death tolls, governmental corruption, and gendered violence very literally sound"--