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Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-language Radio and Public Advocacy

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How Spanish-language radio has influenced American and Latino discourse on key current affairs issues such as citizenship and immigration.

Winner, Book of the Year presented by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education

Honorable Mention for the 2015 Latino Studies Best Book presented by the Latin American Studies Association


The last two decades have produced continued Latino population growth, and marked shifts in both communications and immigration policy. Since the 1990s, Spanish-
language radio has dethroned English-language radio stations in major cities across the United States, taking over the number one spot in Los Angeles,
Houston, Miami, and New York City. Investigating the cultural and political history of U.S. Spanish-language broadcasts throughout the twentieth century, Sounds of Belonging reveals how these changes have helped Spanish-language radio secure its dominance in the major U.S. radio markets.






Bringing together theories on the immigration experience with sound and radio studies, Dolores Inés Casillas documents how Latinos form listening relationships with Spanish-language radio programming. Using a vast array of sources, from print culture and industry journals to sound archives of radio programming, she reflects on institutional growth, the evolution of programming genres, and reception by the radio industry and listeners to map the trajectory of Spanish-language radio, from its grassroots origins to the current corporate-sponsored business it has become. Casillas focuses on Latinos’ use of Spanish-language radio to help navigate their immigrant experiences with U.S. institutions, for example in broadcasting discussions about immigration policies while providing anonymity for a legally vulnerable listenership. Sounds of Belonging proposes that debates of citizenship are not always formal personal appeals but a collective experience heard loudly through broadcast radio.

ISBN-13: 9780814770245

Media Type: Paperback(New Edition)

Publisher: New York University Press

Publication Date: 10-17-2014

Pages: 224

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

Series: Critical Cultural Communication #33

Dolores Inés Casillas is Associate Professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and Director of the Chicano Studies Institute (CSI) at the Universityof California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-language Radio and Public Advocacy (2014), which won Book of the Year from the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education and was Honorable Mention/Best Latino Studies Book, from the Latin American Studies Association. She is co-editor of the Companion to Latina/o Media Studies (2016) and co-editor Feeling It: Language, Race and Affect in Latinx Youth Learning (2018).

Table of Contents


Contents
Acknowledgments ix
A Note on Language xiii
Introduction: Public Advocacy on U.S. Spanish-Language 1
Radio
1. Acoustic Allies: Early Latin-Themed and Spanish-Language 21
Radio Broadcasts, 1920s–1940s
2. Mixed Signals: Developing Bilingual Chicano Radio, 51
1960s–1980s
3. Sounds of Surveillance: U.S. Spanish-Language Radio Patrols 83
La Migra
4. Pun Intended: Listening to Gendered Politics on Morning 101
Radio Shows
5. Desperately Seeking Dinero: Calculating Language and Race 127
within Radio Ratings
Afterword 147
Notes 153
Bibliography 183
Index 207
About the Author 221