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Unbelonging: Inauthentic Sounds in Mexican and Latinx Aesthetics

Unbelonging: Inauthentic Sounds in Mexican and Latinx Aesthetics

Ramos, Iván A.

Hardcover

Series: Postmillennial Pop, Book 28

AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesPerformance Art

ISBN10: 1479808458
ISBN13: 9781479808458
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Jul 11 2023
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

How Latinx artists engage in sonic subcultures to reject neoliberal definitions of belonging

What is the connection between the British rock star Morrissey and the Latinx culture of transnational unbelonging? What is the relevance of dyke chords in Chicana feminist punk and lesbian dissolution? In what ways can dissonant sounds challenge systems of dominance?

Unbelonging answers these questions and more through an exploration into Mexican and US-based Latinx artists', writers', and creators' use of the discordant sounds of punk, metal, and rock to give voice to the aesthetic of unbelonging, a rejection of consumerist and nationalist mentalities. Iván A. Ramos argues that racial identity and belonging have historically required legible forms of performance. Sound has been the primary medium that amplifies and is used to assign cultural citizenship and, for Latinx individuals, legibility is essential to music perceived as traditional and authentic to their national origins. In the context of twentieth-century neoliberal policies, which cemented the concept of citizen within logics of consumerism and capitalism, Ramos turns to focus on Latinx artists, writers, and audiences, who produce experimental and often inauthentic performances and installations in sonic subcultures to reject new definitions of economic citizenship.

Organized around studies of a number of artists, all whom are explored through the methodological frameworks of sound studies, performance studies, and queer theory, Unbelonging unearths how their very different genres of music share a unifying theme of dissonance. With the backdrop of neoliberalism's attempt to define citizenship in relation to economic and cultural legibility, Unbelonging offers an urgent analysis of how these oft-overlooked queer and feminist performers and fans used sonic illegibility to challenge gender norms, official definitions of citizenship, and narratives of assimilation. Ultimately, these forms of inauthenticity move beyond negation and become ways to imagine alternative realities.

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