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Subject(s)

• Mapuche Indians—Chile—Social life and customs [Browse]
• Mapuche Indians—Chile—Folklore [Browse]
• Mapuche Indians—Chile—Music—History and criticism [Browse]
• Sound—Social aspects—Chile—History—19th century [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples—Chile—Ethnic identity [Browse]
• Cultural appropriation—Chile [Browse]
• Oral tradition—Chile [Browse]
• Settler colonialism—Chile—History [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Series

Dissident acts [More in this series]

Summary note

"Acoustic Colonialism examines the role of sound in Chilean and Mapuche cultural production over the last two centuries. For Luis E. Cárcam-Huechante, sound is a territory of racial, patriarchal and colonial hegemony, as well as of Mapuche struggle, agency and response to what he defines as acoustic colonialism. From the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century, Chilean literature, radio, and other media exerted a historic role in disseminating distorted visual and sonic representations of the Mapuche. The enduring effects of what Cárcam-Huechante defines as the colonial ear-the entry point for these misrepresentations-reflect the logic of the Chilean settler nation-state. In response to these aural and sonorous figurations, contemporary Mapuche writers, artists, and activists have produced their own literary, radiophonic, vocal and musical expressions. The voices, sounds, and discourses of these Mapuche productions constitute forms of Indigenous interference-sonic registers that embody practices of contestation and disruption against the acoustic colonialism that has dominated the soundscape of Ngulu Mapu (the "Lands of the West"), the territory designated in present-day cartography as central and southern Chile"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Disfiguring and Silencing of the Mapuche in the 1860s
• Indio Pije: A "Mapuche" in the Mediascape
• Listening Poetically: A Land That Resounds and Sings
• Wixage Anai: Mapuche Voices on the Air
• Enduring Listening and Sounds: The Contemporary Musics of Ngulu Mapu.

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ISBN

• 9781478032632 (paperback)
• 1478032634 (paperback)
• 9781478029298 (hardcover)
• 1478029293 (hardcover)

LCCN

2025012355

OCLC

1515075065

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