Musical Hydropoetics: Fluvial Inhabitings, <i>Son</i> Jarocho, and Anthroposcenes

Ita, Diego Astorga de

doi:10.1080/2373566x.2022.2045208

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“…Indeed, as the geomusicologist George Carney (1998:5) observed 35 years after geomusicology's inception, “almost nothing ha[d] been published on the music of … African‐ … Americans”, and whilst this has slowly begun to change in recent years (e.g. Astorga de Ita 2023; Ramphalile et al. 2023), Black diasporic music remains undertheorised across human geography.…”

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Traversing the Urban Soundscape: Black Sonic Geographies within The Minneapolis Sound

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2024

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This paper illuminates The Minneapolis Sound's emergence from the urban soundscapes of late 20th century Minneapolis. Turning to the 1960s and 1970s, I trace the genre's geohistorical emergence to a Black diasporic community who found within marginality the possibilities to spatialise an experimental world across the urban margins. Disclosing how this experimental world was upheld by improvisatory musical ensembles and their dynamic reaffirmations of a Black sense of place, the paper reveals how The Minneapolis Sound was insurgently pioneered as a Black sonic counter culture amidst unequivocal oppression. I then temporally propel the paper into the 1980s and 1990s and explore how the artist Prince and band The Time radically re‐imagined the city's anti‐Black spatial histories towards more just ends. This elucidates how, after emerging from the spatiality of the racialised metropolis, The Minneapolis Sound provided a speculative avenue of decolonial poetics through which alternative Black futures were made imaginable.

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Traversing the Urban Soundscape: Black Sonic Geographies within The Minneapolis Sound

James

2024

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“…Music—particularly traditional music—counterpoints hegemonic discourses, especially when considering spaces with complex colonial histories in which subaltern voices are silenced. Music brings forth memories and histories kept in sounds, making space for other ways of knowing and other ways of being in the world, becoming a means of resistance beyond official narratives and dominant systems (Astorga de Ita 2022). Just like the blues in the Mississippi, in Sotavento son Jarocho is “a system of explanation that informs … daily life, organizational activity, culture, religion and social movements”; it is a “tradition of interpretation” (Woods 2017:16).…”

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Grassland Geopoetics: Son Jarocho and the Black Sense of Place of Plantations and Pastures

Astorga de Ita

2023

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This essay considers how the grasslands of the Mexican region of El Sotavento entangle with the history of racial capitalism and with traditional Sotaventine music. Throughout this text, I argue that son Jarocho music and its poetics counterpoint racist colonial discourses making space for ways of being beyond racial capitalism. I review the history of Sotaventine grasslands, counterpointing their historical becomings with ethnographic materials and current poetic expressions. I especially focus on two sones: La Caña, written in the 1990s by Patricio Hidalgo Belli regarding sugarcane, and the 18th century Toro Zacamandú that speaks of cowboying. Using scholarly writings on the plantation and plantation histories from McKittrick and Glissant, King's work on fungibility, scholarship on Maroon landscapes and marronage, and an array of writers who explore poetics and geopoetics, we shall see how racial capitalism and the historical becomings of plantations and pastures are reflected and overturned in Sotaventine sounds.

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Musical Hydropoetics: Fluvial Inhabitings, Son Jarocho, and Anthroposcenes

Cited by 2 publications

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Traversing the Urban Soundscape: Black Sonic Geographies within The Minneapolis Sound

Traversing the Urban Soundscape: Black Sonic Geographies within The Minneapolis Sound

Grassland Geopoetics: Son Jarocho and the Black Sense of Place of Plantations and Pastures

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