Vol. 20 No. 1 (2025): Sound Cultures: (Re)Productions, (Re)(Pre)sentations, and Records in Times of Digitalization

This issue of TeC presents the dossier Sound Cultures: (Re)productions, (Re)(A)presentations, and Records in Times of Digitalization. How are acoustic-sonic policies and poetics produced, communicated, shared, consumed, turned into objects of study, archived and assembled into collections, materially supported, expressed through language and performance? In what ways do they translate or convey the debates on cultural representation in written/aural modalities? What are the conditions of possibility for assigning value to events and objects within the realm of so-called sound politics? These and other questions stimulate academic inquiry in the Social Sciences more broadly, and this issue aims to explore them through the concept of sound cultures as a pathway toward understanding human diversity in the contemporary context, which is marked by the digitalization of social experience. The dossier thus seeks to foster a transversal dialogue in the interstitial space between complementary fields of study. The articles that comprise it present reflections and debates around five thematic axes: a) the production, distribution, and consumption of phonographic content;
b) the formation of collections, collecting practices, and sonic curatorships; c) sociolinguistics, ritual, and performance; d) different types of materiality and their capacity to generate value; e) digital technologies within the context of new media. Beyond the dossier, this issue also features articles and reviews published in a continuous flow.