Luis Achondo

The Sounds of Aguante (eBook, ePUB)

Politics of Fandom in South American Football

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Sounds of Aguante is an ethnographic study of the use of sound by hinchas (football fans) in the Latin American Southern Cone. Deeply affected by the neoliberal deterioration of working-class life in the region, hinchas use practices such as drumming, launching pyrotechnics, and singing contrafacta of popular music-activities that circulate transnationally through both digital and analog media-to cheer for their teams. Hinchas discuss and compete, both domestically and internationally, over which hinchada is the most musically creative, dominantly assertive, unwaveringly loyal, and sonically intense in South America. Drawing on first person accounts as well as media coverage, Luis Achondo shows that hinchas use sound to create alternative imaginaries, make their deprived social conditions audible, and sometimes to engage in deadly conflicts where violence often becomes the primary mode of resolution. This study demonstrates that fan (re)mediation has constructed a transnational public assembly that considers itself a central component of soccer, challenging the notion of sports as mere athletic events and fanbases as simple consumer bases. Examining how sound mediates necropolitical relations among fans, the book also highlights how sound functions as both a source and expression of necropower among hinchas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wesleyan University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780819501943
• Artikelnr.: 75477560

Autorenporträt

Luis Achondo is an Assistant Professor at Memorial University. He holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from Brown University and has previously held postdoctoral positions at Case Western Reserve University and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His projects have been generously funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the US Fulbright Program, the Tinker Foundation, and Chile's National Agency for Research and Development, and his work has been published in edited volumes, the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Twentieth-Century Music, Ethnomusicology Forum, Sound Studies, Soccer and Society, Journal of the Society for American Music, Journal of Musicological Research, and Resonancias. He was also awarded the Society for Ethnomusicology's James T. Koetting Prize and LACSEM Prize.