Affect Affects

This afterword considers the thematic issue ‘The Affective Politics of Music in Latin America,’ published by the Journal of Extreme Anthropology. I begin by questioning the frame of Latin America as space of inquiry for understanding the rel…

Afterword

In this Afterword, I use the observations from the special issue ‘Music, Affect and Politics’ to discuss what I see are recurring questions in the studies of music and affect: (1) the tension between new materialism and historical materialis…