Geographies of the Ear

Tania Gentic is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University and author of The Everyday Atlantic: Time, Knowledge, and Subjectivity in the Twentieth-Century Iberian and Latin American Newspaper Chronicle.

• Preface ixIntroduction. Echoic Memories of Dispossession 11. Travel, Race, and the Colonial Sleight of Ear 302. Of Immigrants and Accents 753. Radiophonic Restlessness 1234. Protest and the Acoustic Limits of Democracy 170Coda. The Humble Ear and the Shape of Sound 225Acknowledgments 235Notes 237Bibliography 269Index 289

“Geographies of the Ear deftly engages issues of race, ethnicity, and class to connect Barcelona’s sonic landscape with the development of centralizing and peripheral nationalisms in Spain and colonial forms of oppression and dispossession. With an unprecedented emphasis on sound, Tania Gentic makes a fresh and innovative intervention that will become an important resource for all those interested in the global and transhistorical underpinnings of the complex historical and cultural development of modern Barcelona, Catalonia, and Spain.” - José Luis Venegas, author of The Sublime South: Andalusia, Orientalism, and the Making of Modern Spain “In this extraordinary book, Tania Gentic produces a tour-de-force of archival work, critical ethnography, and cultural analysis. Tuning readers in to discordant histories that mix imperial expansion and regional independence, Geographies of the Ear offers a nuanced account of how artists and activists (punk squatters, queer actors, experimental novelists) have made sound central in struggles to determine what autonomy might mean.” - Tom McEnaney, author of Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas