Speaking Hoarsely: Black Voices and Racialized Listening in Urban New Spain

Listening to renderings of Black voices from urban New Spain, Dr. Finley will highlight the racialized politics and audio-racial discourses that framed the region’s archive. This incomplete phonographic record mutes actual African and Afro-descendant voices, privileges Euro-centric listening positions in accounts of viceregal sound, and contributes to the contemporary dampening of Afro-Mexican sonorities in “national” music canons.”