Listening to Modern Family’s Accent
**This piece is co-authored by Juan Sebastian Ferrada and Dolores Inés Casillas The Cast of ABC Since debuting in 2009, American audiences have fallen in love with ABC’s Modern Family, a mockumentary...
View ArticleListening to the Border: “’2487’: Giving Voice in Diaspora” and the Sound Art...
"Caution, Immigrants." Image taken from phoenixnewtimes.com. Statistics of death can startle a reader. As tidy yet powerful numeric representations statistics are often used as tools of persuasion,...
View ArticleSpeaking “Mexican” and the use of “Mock Spanish” in Children’s Books (or Do...
Cinco de Mayo. ‘Tis the season when many Americans don sombreros, order their frozen margaritas, and, God help us, speak “Spanish.” We are well used to hyper Anglicized renditions of “amigo,”...
View ArticleListening (Loudly) to Spanish-language Radio
This is the third post in Sounding Out!’s 4th annual July forum on listening in observation of World Listening Day on July 18th, 2015. World Listening Day is a time to think about the impacts we have...
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