Audible Empire: Music, Global Politics, Critique
Ronald Radano is Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Lying up a Nation: Race and Black Music.
Tejumola Olaniyan is Louise Durham Mead Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Arrest the Music! Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics.
Ronald Radano is Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Lying up a Nation: Race and Black Music.
Tejumola Olaniyan is Louise Durham Mead Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Arrest the Music! Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics.
Audible Displacements
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Published:January 2016
This essay explores the audibility of U.S. empire and the sonic landscapes of the extended spaces of the U.S.-Mexico border by focusing on both the pasts and presents of migrant musical practice. In the context of a historical “songbook of migrancy” rooted in corridos, Kun traces the work of mobile Mexican dj sound systems, or sonidos, operating on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Sonidos use the dj mix as a form of musical communication and community that both moves between the United States and Mexico and plays a role in shaping cross-border migrant politics and activism. Kun explores these...
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