Veranstaltungs-Detailseite - Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung - Preußischer Kulturbesitz

In TheArchive and the Aural City, Alejandro L. Madrid studies the politics of sound archives in relation to the sonic turn in the humanities. The arrival of the sonic turn in the humanities advocates for listening and sound culture as ways to re-evaluate dominant visuo-centric and logocentric epistemes. This book proposes the notion of the Aural City to investigate how the Latin American elites that coalesced around the idea of the Lettered City continue to carry cultural and political valence at the beginning of the twenty-first century but also how it may challenge the shortcomings of this elite’s nationalistic agenda to build more inclusive spaces for intellectual exchange and political mobilization. By focusing on a number of institutional and alternative archival projects connected to the Aural City, the book investigates how these spaces may reproduce older nation-building projects but also how they could help use imagine their postnational potential and the possibility of retrieving lo inaudito, what these archives render unheard. The book seeks to expand the notion of what an archive can be to challenge the boundary between public and private spaces/knowledge implied in conventional conceptualizations of archive.

Start 3 p.m.
Duration 60 minutes
Free admission

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Access to the seminar room via the gate of the State Institute for Music Research. Link to Open Street Map

Related Links

• Alejandro L. Madrid, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, Harvard University
• SIM-Forschungskolloquium

Photo by Marina Madrid-Pirozhenko