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- Title
Whistling, Gender, and the Aesthetic Turn in Mexico City.
- Abstract
Among certain communities of rural Mexico, whistles are used to mimic the melody of spoken words in order to facilitate long-distance communication. In Mexico City, rural-urban migration has produced an aesthetic turn—there whistles endure but decoupled from their paralinguistic function, reflecting a fluid lexicon of symbolic performance in which imaginaries of gender and social class are key to their deciphering. This article proposes that a focused examination of urban whistles from a sociocultural perspective is essential in understanding precisely how these rapid social transformations are experienced and understood at the intersubjective level.
- Subjects
RURAL-urban migration; AURAL history; AESTHETICS; LINGUISTS; SCHOLARSHIPS
- Publication
Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latinoamericana, 2021, Vol 42, Issue 1, pN.PAG
- ISSN
0163-0350
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7560/lamr42102