
Unbelonging
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What is the connection between the British rock star Morrissey and the Latinx culture of transnational "unbelonging"? What is the relevance of "dyke chords" in Chicana feminist punk and lesbian dissolution? In what ways can dissonant sounds challenge systems of dominance?
Unbelonging answers these questions and more through an exploration into Mexican and US-based Latinx artists', writers', and creators' use of the discordant sounds of punk, metal, and rock to give voice to the aesthetic of "unbelonging," a rejection of consumerist and nationalist mentalities. Ivan A. Ramos argues that racial identity and belonging have historically required legible forms of performance. Sound has been the primary medium that amplifies and is used to assign cultural citizenship and, for Latinx individuals, legibility is essential to music perceived as traditional and authentic to their national origins. In the context of twentieth-century neoliberal policies, which cemented the concept of "citizen" within logics of consumerism and capitalism, Ramos turns to focus on Latinx artists, writers, and audiences, who produce experimental and often "inauthentic" performances and installations in sonic subcultures to reject new definitions of economic citizenship.
Organized around studies of a number of artists, all whom are explored through the methodological frameworks of sound studies, performance studies, and queer theory, Unbelonging unearths how their very different genres of music share a unifying theme of dissonance. With the backdrop of neoliberalism's attempt to define citizenship in relation to economic and cultural legibility, Unbelonging offers an urgent analysis of how these oft-overlooked queer and feminist performers and fans used sonic illegibility to challenge gender norms, official definitions of citizenship, and narratives of assimilation. Ultimately, these forms of inauthenticity move beyond negation and become ways to imagine alternative realities.
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"Sound is the ground for Ivan Ramos's brilliant writing on visual art, performance, and subcultures that radiate out from Mexico, Los Angeles, and through the rest of Latina/o America. Ramos's sonic grounding, actual and conceptual, is far from stable. Records melt, checkpoints are refused, the inauthentic is genuine, geopolitical narratives shake, punk is a Latina/o given rather than a something taken. The castaways of neoliberalism are key protagonists. The illegible artists and audiences and the bootleg tapes that live and play in this indispensable book push Ramos towards transformative theories about performance and aesthetics. Readers will no doubt become forever altered having come to know them intimately through Ramos's beautiful treatise on unbelonging." - Alexandra Vazquez, New York University "A lucid and theoretically informed account of how listening practices between Mexico and the United States can work in opposition to the national popular and its regimes of affect. Unbelonging sets the record straight on whitewashed accounts of rock and punk that ignore how Latinx subjects took up subcultural spaces and stances. Taking time to 'feel brown' beyond the boundaries of race and nation, Ivan Ramos delivers up a new and vibrant account of aesthetic dissensus that will forward queer-of-color critique." - Tavia Amolo Ochieng' Nyong'o, Yale University "In his gloriously cranky yet deeply moving book, the performance-studies scholar Ivan A. Ramos invites us to relish in the dissonance of the punk, metal, and other 'inauthentic sounds' bootlegged and bartered in the marketplaces of Mexico City and beyond from the late 1980s to 2015... In the company of Chicana punks, queer performance artists, filmmakers, and disaffected Morrissey fans on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, Ramos gives us the space, time, and fortitude to not belong together." - Karen Tongson (The Chronicle of Higher Education)More details
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