Genres of Listening by Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas
In Genres of Listening Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas explores a unique culture of listening and communicating in Buenos Aires. She traces how psychoanalytic listening circulates beyond the clinical setting to become a central element of social interaction and cultural production in the city that has the highest number of practicing psychologists and psychoanalysts in the world. Marsilli-Vargas develops the concept of genres of listening to demonstrate that hearers listen differently, depending on where, how, and to whom they are listening. In particular, she focuses on psychoanalytic listening as a specific genre. Porteños (citizens of Buenos Aires) have developed a “psychoanalytic ear” that emerges during conversational encounters in everyday interactions in which participants offer different interpretations of the hidden meaning the words carry. Marsilli-Vargas does not analyze these interpretations as impositions or interruptions but as productive exchanges. By outlining how psychoanalytic listening operates as a genre, Marsilli-Vargas opens up ways to imagine other modes of listening and forms of social interaction.
"Marsilli-Vargas’s book is an exemplary ethnography, weaving together rich empirical materials with a deeply contextualised case-study to develop novel theoretical insights on a topic of central concern to Sound Studies. . . Marsilli-Vargas develops important conceptual tools for a nuanced understanding of listening while making a significant contribution to fields such cultural history, Latin American Studies, and the anthropology of sound." -- Chris Batterman Cháirez * Sound Studies *
“Genres of Listening is a monumental addition to linguistic and anthropological understanding of listening that fulfills each of its promises.” -- Jeremy A. Rud * Linguistic Anthropology *
“The book helps us to understand this culture as an urban phenomenon and to study it along with coexisting discourses and cultures of self-care that live beyond the capital of Argentina. . . . Genres of Listening will provide the readers with a deep understanding of the undergoing transformations in Argentina’s more intimate relationships.”
-- Kristin E. Yarris * Bulletin of Latin American Research *
“Genres of Listening is a valuable study, a very important first step that will be useful for those who research and teach in postgraduate courses about the Argentine middle classes and their ways of thinking and acting.” -- Sergio E. Visacovsky * American Ethnologist *
“Genres of Listening is a monumental addition to linguistic and anthropological understanding of listening that fulfills each of its promises.” -- Jeremy A. Rud * Linguistic Anthropology *
“The book helps us to understand this culture as an urban phenomenon and to study it along with coexisting discourses and cultures of self-care that live beyond the capital of Argentina. . . . Genres of Listening will provide the readers with a deep understanding of the undergoing transformations in Argentina’s more intimate relationships.”
-- Kristin E. Yarris * Bulletin of Latin American Research *
“Genres of Listening is a valuable study, a very important first step that will be useful for those who research and teach in postgraduate courses about the Argentine middle classes and their ways of thinking and acting.” -- Sergio E. Visacovsky * American Ethnologist *
Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781478015918 |
| ISBN 10 | 1478015918 |
| Title | Genres of Listening |
| Author | Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas |
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| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 2022-09-16 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
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