This list features publications by the principal investigators and graduate fellows of the Latinx Sound Studies Working Group (2022-2024). A more comprehensive Latinx Sound Studies bibliography is in the works.
Sounding Out! Blog Series
Wanda Alarcón, Dolores Inés Casillas, Esther Díaz Martín, Sara Veronica Hinojos, and Cloe Gentile Reyes, Faithful Listening: Notes Toward a Latinx Listening Methodology, (June 30, 2025)
Laurisa Sastoque, This AI will heat up any club: Reggaetón and the Rise of the Cyborg Genre (December 9, 2024)
Sara V. Hinojos and Alex Mireles, Sonic Homes: The Sonic/Racial Intimacy of Black and Brown Banda Music in Southern California (Oct 7, 2024) (#7 Post of 2024!)
Kristie Valdez-Guillen, Boom! Boom! Boom!: Banda, Dissident Vibrations, and Sonic Gentrification in Mazatlán (September 23, 2024)
Esther Díaz Martín and Rebeca Rivas Listening to MAGA-Politics within US/Mexico’s Lucha Libre (Aug 12, 2024) (#2 Post in 2024!)
Cloe Gentile Reyes Ronca Realness: Voices that Sound the Sucia Body (Aug 07, 2023) (#5 Post in 2023!)
Esther Díaz Martín and Kristian E. Vasquez Xicanacimiento, Life-Giving Sonics of Critical Consciousness Sounding Out! (Aug 21, 2023)
D. Inés Casillas and Jose Manuel Flores Fuentes Echoes in Transit: Loudly Waiting at the Paso del Norte Border Region Sounding Out! (Sept 11, 2023) (#8 Post in 2023!)
Sara V. Hinojos and Eliana Buenrostro Listening to Digitized ‘Ratatas’ or ‘No Sabo Kids’ (Oct 16. 2023)
Public Scholarship
Border Soundscapes is a project led by Jose Manuel Flores Fuentes that arises from the need to explore the field of Sound Studies from a perspective of rhetoric and its intersection with philosophical postures that comes from the aesthetics, logic, and ethics of sound. Our wide-open laboratory is located on the border between Mexico and the United States, specifically in the sister cities Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and El Paso, Texas.
Schizophonic Realism in Greater Mexico Playlist: A collection of songs curated by Esther Díaz Martín featuring songs that contain sonic details and soundmarks of the Mexican War on Drugs which schizophonically code the soundscape of narcocultura creating an aberrational effect (ala Murray Schafer) when these circulate beyond their source decontextualizing border necropolitics.
Xicana Tiahui Podcast, Kristian E. Vasquez co-host: A podcast from the voices of the Chicanx World-Making and Futurities Project. The Xicana Tiahui podcast is a Xicanx-based podcast exploring issues in the US university, zapatismo, political consciousness, new scholarship in Chicanx and Latinx studies, the US-Mexico border, and Indigenous struggles in Las Américas. Listen to La Xicanada Playlist songs of Alacrán Desires zine.
On IG: Radio Ponkera y Loverboy: Punk/post-punk/new wave/goth and the POC influence in the sound. Catch our transbarrio transmission Tuesdays on@que4radio. & pochapunks: punkeras claiming our place in the transbarrio punk scene CHI, LA, Mexico City, NYC, Lima, Riverside, LDN. Eliana Buenrostro, collaborator.
Reggaetón: A Decolonial Movimiento a collaborative playlist curated by Cloe Gentile Reyes and students in Reggaetón: A Decolonial Movimiento at NYU, a course that explores reggaetón’s potentials for embodying Indigeneity and Afro-Diasporic soundworlds. The playlist prioritizes queer and femme interventions in perreo, and contextualizes global reggaetón with its translocal roots in Panama, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and New York City. The playlist is to act as a generational archive of the present, as it is the first of many that will emerge from Gentile Reyes’ reggaetón course.
La Topo Radio, a collaborative visual bibliography of scholarship on U.S. Spanish-language radio co-edited by Eric Silberberg, D. Inés Casillas, Monica De La Torre, and Sonia Robles.
Books
Bucholtz, Mary, Dolores Ines Casillas, and Jin Sook Lee, eds. Feeling It : Language, Race, and Affect in Latinx Youth Learning. First edition. London: Taylor and Francis, 2018.
Cepeda, María Elena, and Dolores Inés Casillas, eds. The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Media. New York, NY: Routledge, 2017.
Casillas, Dolores Inés. Sounds of Belonging: US Spanish-Language Radio and Public Advocacy. Vol. 33. NYU Press, 2014.
Díaz Martín, Esther. Radiophonic Feminisms: Latina Voices in the Digital Age of Broadcasting. UT Press, 2025.
Articles
Gentile Reyes, Cloe. “Súbete la minifalda hasta la espalda: Femme Fashion Ancestries in Perreo.” Intervenxions, (Dec 14, 2023).
Hinojos, Sara Veronica. “Accented Latinx Textese: Bilingual Scriptural Economies and Digital Literacies.” In Thinking With an Accent, edited by Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, and Pavitra Sundar, 73-94. University of California Press, Feb 21, 2023.
Casillas, D. Inés, Sara Veronica Hinojos, and Adanari Zarate. “[Cries in Spanish]: The Memetic Role of Soraya Montenegro in Latina/o/x Popular Culture.” In Communicative Spaces in Bilingual Contexts, 143-158. Routledge, 2022.
Casillas, D. Inés. “Listening to Don Cheto on U.S. Spanish-Language Radio.” In The Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies. Routledge. 2022.
Flores Fuentes, José Manuel, and Durá, Lucia. “The Border Soundscapes Project https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/26.1/praxis/flores-dura/index.html.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 26. no. 1, 2021.
Bucholtz, Mary, Dolores Inés Casillas, and Jin Sook Lee. “Resisting racism and neoliberalism in critical language research and activism with racialized youth.” In Critical Youth Research in Education, edited by Arshad Imtiaz Ali, Teresa L. McCarty, 21-39. Routledge, 2020.
Hinojos, Sara Veronica. “Lupe Vélez and her spicy visual “accent” in English-language print media.” Latino Studies, 17. no. 3, (2019): 338-361.
Díaz Martín, Esther. “Aprender Bordando: Embroidery as Meditation and Knowledge Making.” Voices from the Ancestors: Xicanx and Latinx Spiritual Expressions and Healing Practices, edited by Lara Medina, Martha R Gonzales, 80-82. UA Press, 2019.
Hinojos, Sara Veronica. “VERY¡MACHO!” in Latinx Ciné in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama, 335-54. UA Press, 2019.
Bucholtz, Mary, Dolores Inés Casillas, and Jin Sook Lee. “California Latinx Youth as Agents of Sociolinguistic Justice.” In Language and Social Justice in Practice, 166-175. Routledge, 2018.
Díaz Martín, Esther. Radiophonic Feminisms: The Sounds and Voices of Contemporary Latina Radio Hosts in the US Southwest, 1990-2017. The University of Texas at Austin, 2018. Dissertation.
Casillas, Dolores Inés, Juan Sebastian Ferrada, and Sara Veronica Hinojos. “The Accent on Modern Family: Listening to Representations of the Latina Vocal Body.” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 43, no. 1, (2018): 61-88.
Buenrostro, Eliana. “Bianca Xunise is a Black Goth, ‘Unapologetically Hood,’ and Changing the World With Comics” The Establishment. (September 21, 2018).
Díaz Martín, Esther. “Contestaciones: The Music Genre of Cyber-Hociconas.” Chicana/Latina Studies, 16, no. 2, 76–99 (Spring 2017): 76-99.
Flores Fuentes, José Manuel. “La Otra Mirada: Configuración de los signos en la campaña promocional del Canal Once TV México” La Imagen de lo Imposible. Edited by García, Rutilio, Valdivia, Benjamin & Bailleres, Jaime, 130-165. Universidad de Guanajuato and Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, 2017.
Hinojos, Sara Veronica. ” Can joo belieb it?”: The Racial Politics of Chican@ Linguistic Scripts in US Media (1925-2014). University of California, Santa Barbara, 2016. Dissertation.
Flores Fuentes, José Manuel and Balderrama Armendáriz, Cesar.“La investigación académica y las cortinillas de televisión hechas en México: Mecanismos y estrategias para la persuasión de las audiencias” in Objetos Creados: Estudios desde el Arte, el Diseño y la Educación. Edited by Hugo Gil Flores & Ariza, Verónica, 219-237. Universidad de Guadalajara. 2016.
Díaz Martín, Esther and José García. “La comida y sus historias: Food-centered Life Histories of Two Mexican Women Living in the US.” Diálogo 18, no. 1, (2015): 79-89.
Casillas, Dolores Inés, “Lost in Translation: The Politics of Race and Language in U.S. Spanish-Language Radio Ratings.” In Contemporary Latina/o Media: Production, Circulation, Politics, edited by Arlene Davila and Yiedy Rivero, 206-222. New York: New York University Press, 2014.
Díaz Martín, Esther. “Don cheto, el cronista del pueblo: una reactualización del mito de Don y validación de la memoria colectiva de la comunidad mexicana transnacional.” Border-Lines: Journal of the Latino Research Center at the University of Nevada, Reno, vol. 8, (2014): 55–75.
Casillas, Dolores Inés, “Listening to Race and Migration on U.S. Spanish-language Radio.” In Radio’s New Wave: Global Sound in the Digital Era, edited by Michele Hilmes and Jason Loviglio, 91-105. New York: Routledge Press, 2013.
Casillas, Dolores Inés,“Sounds of Surveillance: U.S. Spanish-language Radio Patrols La Migra.” American Quarterly, vol. 63, no. 3 (September 2011): 807-829.
Casillas, Dolores Inés, “Adiós El Cucuy: Immigration and Laughter over the Aiwaves.” Boom: A Journal of California, Vol. 1, Number 3 (September 2011): 44–56.
Casillas, Dolores Inés, “Puuurrrooo MÉXICO!: Listening to Transnationalism on U.S. Spanish-language Radio.” In Beyond el Barrio: Everyday Life in Latina/o America, edited by Gina Perez, Frank Guridy, and Adrian Burgos, 44-62. New York: New York University Press, 2010.