The Aural Industrial Extractivist Global Complex

Ana María Ochoa is a professor in the Newcomb Department of Music, the Department of Communication, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University. Her work centers on histories of listening and the decolonial; on sound studies and climate change; and on the relationship between the creative industries, the literary, and the sonic in Latin America and the Caribbean. Her current projects explore the bioacoustics of life and death in colonial histories of the Americas and the relationship between sound, climate change, and the colonial. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow (2007–08). Her book, Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia (Duke University Press, 2014) was awarded the Alan Merriam Prize by the Society for Ethnomusicology. She is also the author of Músicas locales en tiempos de globalización (Buenos Aires: Norma, 2003) and Entre los Deseos y los Derechos: Un Ensayo Crítico sobre Políticas Culturales (Bogotá: Ministerio de Cultura, 2003) and numerous articles in Spanish and English.