Sound-Politics in São Paulo

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Leonardo Cardoso (Assistant Professor, Department of Performance Studies, Assistant Professor, Department of Performance Studies, Texas A&M University)

Sound-Politics in São Paulo

Leonardo Cardoso (Assistant Professor, Department of Performance Studies, Assistant Professor, Department of Performance Studies, Texas A&M University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
18 June 2019

Non-Western music: traditional & "classical"; Pollution & threats to the environment; Urban & municipal planning; Pollution control

Series: Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music

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 São 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.

By: Leonardo Cardoso (Assistant Professor Department of Performance Studies Assistant Professor Department of Performance Studies Texas A&M University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 239mm, Width: 157mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 431g
ISBN: 9780190660109
ISBN 10: 0190660104
Series: Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 18 June 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: The Noise Multiple Chapter 1: Anti-Noise Waves Chapter 2: Of Norms and Ears Chapter 3: The Echo Chamber Chapter 4: Administrative Flows Chapter 5: Legal Channels Chapter 6: The ""Rowdy Teenagers"" Conclusion: The Four Strata References"

Leonardo Cardoso is an assistant professor in the Department of Performance Studies at Texas A&M University.

Reviews for Sound-Politics in São Paulo

Subtly navigating at the cross-road of sound-studies, of Science and Technology Studies and post-ANT authors, and of urban policies and post-Foucaldian studies, this is a brilliant study on the 'paradox of control'. * Antoine Hennion, Centre de sociologie de l'innovation, MinesParisTech / CNRS, France * In this remarkable and innovative book, Leonardo Cardoso expands the conversation about cities and citizenship by taking his readers into the soundscapes of urban Sao Paulo and exploring the complexities of 'sound-politics.' Sound-Politics in Sao Paulo opens up a whole new arena for analyzing struggles over the urban environment, and for considering the often irreconcilable expectations that city dwellers harbor regarding the quality of urban life. * Barbara Weinstein, Professor of History, New York University *