Publications

In this Praxis webtext, Jose Manuel Flores Fuentes and Lucia Dura explore how soundscapes, constituted by "different knowledge-making perspectives such as music, architecture, design, computer science, sociology, biology, health, psychology, philosophy, rhetoric" converge in an "authentic concern for sound," and "the sound phenomenon," specifically in the Borderlands of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez. Through the inclusion of sounds from the border, the authors make the case that the development of a cultural repository for borderland sounds contributes to the (re)mapping of sound studies through a rhetorical perspective that emphasizes the dynamic nature of borderlands.