Music, noise…or silence? Contradictions of Ciudad de Buenos Aires government in the assessment of street music
This article analyzes the 2018 conflict between artists and the Buenos Aires City government, when a reform in the Contraventional Code defined street music as an annoying noise. My analysis focuses on contradictions recorded during ethnographic work, where the municipal government shows an ambiguou...
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| Lenguaje: | Español |
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Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/CAS/article/view/11427 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=cantropo&d=11427_oai |
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| Sumario: | This article analyzes the 2018 conflict between artists and the Buenos Aires City government, when a reform in the Contraventional Code defined street music as an annoying noise. My analysis focuses on contradictions recorded during ethnographic work, where the municipal government shows an ambiguous valuation of street music. My hypothesis is that the use of noise nuisance by government systems functions as a category broad enough to proscribe and sanction practices that escape state control. The text is organized around how noise has been defined in Buenos Aires, an approach to street music in the city and, finally, the contradictions that allow us to conclude that through noise the government seeks to control and reduce a social, artistic, historical and public practice to its acoustic aspect. |
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