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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 16–35.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Mark Harris This essay asks how the soundscapes represented in Caribbean literature and music provide alternative paradigms for conceptualizing noise and silence. As American and European sound studies have drawn from the writings of John Cage, Murray Schafer, and Jacques Attali to articulate...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 22–38.
Published: 01 November 2012
... between realms that might otherwise be difficult to discern: privatized humanitarianism, emotion, celebrity, entertainment, and the mediatized image of the Caribbean nation of Haiti. © 2012 by Small Axe, Inc. 2012 Soundscapes of Disaster
and Humanitarianism:
Survival Singing, Relief Telethons...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 36–52.
Published: 01 July 2014
... soundscape with points in New York, Havana, Port-au-Prince, and London. The author relies on an implicitly comparative framework but is also interested in following people and things as they traveled between these places and instigated new sonic routes. The notion of the disposition of things animates...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 150–159.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Satch Hoyt Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Hybrid Navigator
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Float Like a Butterfly, 2008. Baby boxing gloves, steel, audio
components, accompanied by a soundscape; 66 x 52 x 30 cm.
Photograph by Trevor Morgan...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 175–184.
Published: 01 March 2016
... and culture, and cultural form, that I hold with me as I read Alexandra T. Vazquez's Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music alongside its recent diaspora studies compatriots: Shana L. Redmond's Anthem ; Tsisti Ella Jaji's Africa in Stereo ; and Edwin C. Hill's Black Soundscapes, White Stages...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 96–102.
Published: 01 March 2020
... program Caribbean Voices ; landscape and state are already worked into the creative/literary foundations of these literary radio soundscapes. 2 This program, which aired from 1943 to 1958, created in its sonic interventions a vernacular language with themes, accents, and “local color,” building...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 179–188.
Published: 01 November 2016
... my hands have touched you,” Lucía says, as she reluctantly leaves Josefina's room. 9 In “La espera,” Contreras plots the soundscape of a nocturnal world where female moans, front doors that open and close, and crying babies allude to heteronormative coupledom, male privilege, and reproductive...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 194–196.
Published: 01 November 2019
...-Caribbean women s writing and Caribbean anticolonial thought, politics, and aesthetics. Her work examines how the management of the soundscape through noise abate- ment laws and public discourses condemning noise has served as a crucial avenue of racial and colonial governance in both the pre...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 163–175.
Published: 01 July 2022
... in order to “produce the idea of the world,” 4 because Ellis Neyra’s book seeks to participate in the broader movement of desedimenting and decentering the soundscape of that overdetermining “White mythology,” 5 the question of how to hear/read this book becomes all the more acute. For if The Cry...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 181–190.
Published: 01 March 2018
... what Paul Gilroy famously called a counterculture to modernity and what I have specified as a sonic alternative (or alternative soundscape) to modernization. For example, in rapidly urbanizing environments rural, folk, or even plantation-based sounds worked against those alienations we attribute...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 247–255.
Published: 01 June 2006
... rural plantation creole? Professor Sarat Maharaj would call this polyphonic
soundscape “A Strife of Tongues.” Do these languages still haunt us in rural-speak acoustics
and somatics? Have they contributed to what’s called that “beautiful Caribbean accent”?
What force or forces must act...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 34–49.
Published: 01 November 2019
... encoded in dancehall music that rejects the revolutionary utopianism woven into the post-independence Jamaican soundscape. The novel stages this temporal conflict at the center of Jamaican popular music—and global Cold War culture—through the status of revolutionary Cuba and the riddim -based technique...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 34–48.
Published: 01 July 2024
..., and soundscapes. In the reading of “El Burén de Lula” I consider the particularities of the food documentary genre à la Netflix’s Chef’s Table , visual narration, speed, and the position of the bodies. When analyzing Viña “la Gran Pastelera” Hernández’s video recipe, I explore her interactions with the live...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 180–190.
Published: 01 July 2014
..., Diaspora, and Possible Africas (A Eulogy),” Transition 104 (2011): 76–92; Edwin C. Hill, Black Soundscapes, White Stages: The Meaning of Francophone Sound in the Black Atlantic (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013); Francesca T. Royster, Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 86–97.
Published: 01 July 2023
... of tropical rain on galvanized roofs. Yet precisely on this account you could sense how the poetry emanated from a specific soundscape and oral culture. Maureen’s voice challenged us to encounter that culture at a visceral level. As she declaimed “The Wanderer,” the poem’s rhythms reverberated back past...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 127–133.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of the outer planation to the variegated plots and resilient soundscapes of the inner plantation. It also redefines and rethinks archival resources in terms of specific vernacular institutions and oral traditions of the inner plantation: “The archive of course is there, all around us: in the speech and actions...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 172–180.
Published: 01 March 2018
... McDonald, eds., Stars Don’t Stand Still in the Sky: Music and Myth (New York: New York University Press, 1999), 261. 4 William Gibson, Neuromancer (New York: Ace, 1984). 5 Michael Veal, Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 150–160.
Published: 01 October 2006
... proportionately, obscuring the local narrative
in the process. Hence, the marginalities often imposed on dancehall are actually mirrored in the
outsider status of local Caribbean academics in the soundscape of music and culture debates.
Let us also be clear that the fire Cooper identifies...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 193–204.
Published: 01 October 2006
... that:
Bhangra has a diaspora of its own with Canadian and African iterations that ultimately expands
the definition, scope, and influence of dancehall. Links can therefore be made into a transnational
soundscape to other genres directly influenced by dancehall such as kwaito, reggaeton, makossa...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 97–127.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Michael Veal, Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2007). See also Aaron Kamugisha, Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019), for a robust...
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