"Complementing the analysis of the dominant and, to a certain extent, unavoidable scopic regimes through which Mexico’s troubles and social ills since the War on Drugs have been witnessed, Sonic Strategies focuses on the diverse sonic production without which spectacular and senseless violence would be experienced more like an extended silent horror movie. In Baker’s fascinating study, musical and aural assemblages not only reveal deep causal connections to the dark scenarios that she convincingly describes as 'a country in war with itself,' but also to the vital channels of collective sense-making and resistance provided by cultural producers in both Mexico and diasporic Mexico, who call attention to the transformative political and aesthetic potential of music and performance. " —Ignacio Corona, co-editor of Gender Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Media Representation and Public Response
