Sounding Latinx is a project of the Latinx Sound Culture Studies research working group which brings together interdisciplinary scholars thinking about what sound and listening do within the cultural imaginaries of largely working class, migrant, and racialized Latinx communities. Our research attends to social and spatial mobility, transgressive and transformative modes of sounding and listening, and decolonizing listening methodologies.
Our activities include public programing through our Webinar Series (see “Events“), collaborative publications, and mentorship of doctoral students. We hope to contribute to advancing the field of Latinx Sound Studies by facilitating conversations between scholars whose work attends to sounding and listening practices across disciplines and areas of study including, but not limited to, radio studies, linguistics, feminist praxis, border soundscapes, jotería/queer performance studies, and music imaginaries.
This research group is established in 2022 through the Crossing Latinidades Humanities Research Initiative at University of Illinois Chicago backed by grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation.
We invite all “Latinx soundies”; advance graduate students, scholars, sound artists, and curious listeners to join this project! Sign up to our Mailing List to receive invitations and news. Also, check out our open Call for Papers. We are seeking contributors for an upcoming edited volume on Latinx Sound Studies!