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Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-language Radio and Public Advocacy (Critical Cultural Communication)

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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 US, taking over the #1 spot in Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, and New York City. Investigating the cultural and political history of U.S. Spanish-language broadcasts all the way through the twentieth century, Sounds of Belonging reveals how these changes have helped Spanish-language radio safe 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. The usage of 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 change into. Casillas makes a speciality of Latinos’ use of Spanish-language radio to help navigate their immigrant experiences with U.S. institutions, for example in broadcasting discussions about immigration policies at the same time as providing anonymity for a legally vulnerable listenership. Sounds of Belonging proposes that debates of citizenship don’t seem to be at all times formal personal appeals but a collective experience heard loudly through broadcast radio.

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