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Musical Hydropoetics: Fluvial Inhabitings, Son Jarocho, and Anthroposcenes

Astorga de Ita, Diego

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This is a geopoetic exploration of riverine space through music. In this article, I build upon the nascent field of hydropoetics by approaching the space of rivers through musical ethnographic research. I draw upon post-colonial geopoetic approaches, blue humanities and oceanic studies, and the phenomenology of Gaston Bachelard and Ivan Illich, as well as on the praxis of son Jarocho musicians. I reflect upon three vignettes of music in two rivers of Sotavento in southeast Mexico and in one British river, exploring the ways in which son Jarocho music is used to produce and transform space. These surveys disembogue into a consideration of the possibilities granted by musical hydropoetics in the context of the Anthropocene, thinking of landscapes as feral Anthroposcenes as per Tsing et al. and Matless’s works.

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Astorga de Ita, D. (2022). Musical Hydropoetics: Fluvial Inhabitings, Son Jarocho, and Anthroposcenes. Geohumanities, 8(2), 435-456. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566x.2022.2045208

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 15, 2021
Online Publication Date Jun 1, 2022
Publication Date 2022
Deposit Date Aug 2, 2022
Publicly Available Date Feb 10, 2023
Journal GeoHumanities
Print ISSN 2373-566X
Electronic ISSN 2373-5678
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 8
Issue 2
Pages 435-456
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566x.2022.2045208
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1195044

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