Making It Heard: A History of Brazilian Sound Art, new book edited by Rui Chaves,Fernando Iazzetta and published at Bloomsbury.
From the mid-20th century to present, the Brazilian art, literature, and music scene have been witness to a wealth of creative approaches involving sound. This is the backdrop for Making It Heard: A History of Brazilian Sound Art, a volume that offers an overview of local artists working with performance, experimental vinyl production, sound installation, sculpture, mail art, field recording, and sound mapping. It criticizes universal approaches to art and music historiography that fail to recognize local idiosyncrasies, and creates a local rationale and discourse. Through this approach, Chaves and Iazzetta enable students, researchers, and artists to discover and acknowledge work produced outside of a standard Anglo-European framework.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction (Rui Chaves and Fernando Iazzetta, University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Part One: Abre-Alas
1. Sounds from Elsewhere: Episodes for a History of Brazilian Sound Art (Fernando Iazzetta, University of São Paulo, Brazil)
2. Making Oneself Heard in Public, through Art and in Sound-Based Scholarship (Rui Chaves, University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Part Two: Bateria
3. Music Is What I Make (Vivian Caccuri, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
4. Radio Art, Cassette Culture, and Networked Artistic Practices: The International Ra(u)dio Art Show (IRAS) in Recife (Yuri Bruscky, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)
Part Three: Barracão
5. Gambiarra’s Perspective (Giuliano Obici, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil)
6. Listening to the Debris: Brazilian Sound Art and the Low-Technology Economy (Andre Damião, University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Part Four: Avenida
7. Being in the Field: Process, Narrativity, and Discovery in the Field-Recording Work of Thelmo Cristovam and Alexandre Fenerich (Paulo Dantas, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
8. Other Paths to Sonic Cartographies: “Mapa Sonoro CWB” and Its Untethered Soundwalks (Thaís Aragão, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil)
Part Five: Batucada
9. Out of the Mainstream: Noise and Otherness in the Work of Marie Carangi, Paula Garcia, and Sofia Caesar (Lílian Campesato, University of São Paulo, Brazil)
10. Counter-Tradition: Toward the Black Vanguard of Contemporary Brazil (GG Albuquerque, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)
11. Engaged Sonorities: Politics and Gender in the Work of Vanessa De Michelis (Tânia Mello Neiva, Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil)
Afterword: The Audibility of Brazilian Sound Art (Ana M. Ochoa Gautier, Columbia University, USA)
List of Contributors
Index