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Alejandra Bronfman, "Isles of Noise: Sonic Media in the Caribbean" (UNC Press, 2016)
The Caribbean has figuratively and literally been entangled in processes of global integration earlier than other parts of the Americas.
In Isles of Noise: Sonic Media in the Caribbean (UNC Press, 2016), Alejandra Bronfman offers a refreshing perspective to this well-trodden story. In this book, she traces the emergence and growth of telecommunications technologies in Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba during the first half of the twentieth century.
Bronfman examines the ways these new communication technologies often undermined rather than served as tools of domination for imperial forces—American or…
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