Sound-Politics in Sao Paulo (Paperback)

How does the state separate music from noise? How can such a 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 Sao 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 dynamic that emerges from both processes - the channels through which sounds enter (and leave) the sphere of state regulation.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
Release date:	June 2019
Authors:	Leonardo Cardoso (Assistant Professor, Department of Performance Studies)
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-066010-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Non-Western music, traditional & classical Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > Pollution control Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > General Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Urban & municipal planning > General Books > Music > Non-Western music, traditional & classical Promotions
LSN:	0-19-066010-4
Barcode:	9780190660109

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