Abstract

PLAZOLA, Eduardo. Noise in social crisis context. Perf. latinoam. [online]. 2019, vol.27, n.53, 00014. ISSN 0188-7653.  https://doi.org/10.18504/pl2753-014-2019.

Noise is a way to go beyond sonic and social limits in social crisis contexts. This essay is about screams content and manifestations in three marches to support Ayotzinapa᾿s case, framed in human rights violations and antisystemic social processes. It combines ethnography with semiotics, the first to describe the expressions and the second to locate its significance. In some streets of Guadalajara in the year 2014 there was possibility for the collective ecstatic (to leave itself) in each scream, because the high volume and the rabid expressions of the indignation prevailed, and echoed the characteristic sounds of the social movement emerged by this case. Screams content was about State’s social power decadence, public education tension, people politics, and Iguala’s aberrant event.

Keywords : Scream; march; noise; social crisis; Ayotzinapa; Guadalajara; Mexico.