Latinx Sound Cultures: Belonging, Resonance, Amplifications

The Latinx Sound Cultures Studies (LSCS) Research Working Group brings together Chicana/x and Latina/x scholars whose research engages with thinking about sound as a medium for the creative formation of political subjects in contemporary media. A group of pre-doctoral fellows support research activities through individual fieldwork, collaborative scholarship, and cross-institutional pedagogical projects.

Goals

Through its activities, the Research Working Group seeks to:

  • Create a working definition of the emerging field of Latinx Sound Culture Studies.

  • Support new research on sound-based initiatives by gathering case study materials in three geographical regions: the West Coast, Midwest, and East Coast.

  • Build the field of Latinx Sound Cultures Studies through graduate mentorship, undergraduate-centered pedagogical initiatives, and public programming.

Principal Investigators

D. Inés Casillas, Professor of Chicano and Chicana Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara is mapping the emergence of (Mexican) Indigenous-speaking radio stations in California’s central coast.

Esther Díaz Martín, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies and Gender and Women Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago is surveying contemporary Latinx-led radio and podcasting projects in Chicago and the Midwest

Sara V. Hinojos, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Queens College, CUNY will investigate the use of language within podcasts by queer, Afro-Latinx hosts based in New York City.

Fellows

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Eliana Buenrostro, Crossing Latinidades Research Fellow 2022-2023, Ethnic Studies, University of California Riverside

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José Manuel Flores, Crossing Latinidades Reseach Fellow 2022-2023, Department of Rhetoric, University of Texas at El Paso

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Kristian E. Vasquez, Crossing Latinidades Research Fellow 2022-2023, Chicana and Chicano Studies. University of California, Santa Barbara

News and Public Programs

Webinars

Crip Listening with a Latina Feminist Ear with María Elena Cepeda, Williams College
November, 15, 2022

Suggested Readings:

  • María Elena Cepeda; Thrice Unseen, Forever on Borrowed Time: Latina Feminist
    Reflections on Mental Disability and the Neoliberal Academy. South Atlantic Quarterly 1
    April 2021; 120 (2): 301–320. doi: https://doi-org.proxy.cc.uic.edu/10.1215/00382876-8916046

  • Sara Ahmed; Introduction, Complaint! Duke UP. 2021.
    https://www.dukeupress.edu/complaint

Chicana Punk Epistemologies with Michelle Haball-Pallán, University of Washington and Marlén Ríos-Hernández, California State University, Fullerton
March 16, 2023

Suggested Readings:

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  • Michelle Habell-Pallán, Sonnet Retman, Angelica Macklin, and Monica De La Torre, Women Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities (Convivencia and Archivista Praxis for a Digital Era), The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities, Routledge, 2018.

  • Marlén Ríos-Hernandez, “Policing Punk and the Surveillance of Difference: The Elks Lodge Police Riot in the Context of “Post”-COINTELPRO Los Angeles” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 47:1 (Spring 2022): 73-102.

  • Michelle Habell-Pallán, “Girl in a Comma Tweets Chicanafuturism: Decolonial Visions, Social Media and Archivista Praxis”; Altermundos: Latin@ Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture. Eds.
    Catherine J. Merla-Watson and B.V. Olguin. UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press; Distributed by University of Washington Press, 2017.

  • Michelle Habell-Pallán, “Hazlo tú mismo (Do-it-yourself”; o DIY), Años 1980-2000." in Marisol Berrios-Miranda, Shannon Dudley, and Michelle Habell-Pallán, American Sabor: Latinos and Latinas in American Popular Music, University of Washington Press, 2017, pp. 202-263.

  • Michelle Habell-Pallán, “‘Death to Racism and Punk Revisionism’: Alice Bag’s Vexing Voice and the Unspeakable Influence of Canción Ranchera on Hollywood Punk,”in Pop When the World Falls Apart: Music in the Shadow of Doubt edited by Eric Weisbard, Duke University Press, 2012.

The Sonic Geographies of Anti-Border Music with Roberto D. Hernández, San Diego State University and Yaotl Mazahua, Aztlan Underground

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