Afterword

Abstract This afterword is meant to hint at the resonances of the early recording industry in the world of massive entertainment through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It also addresses the lasting and mutual impacts of imperialism for colonizers and colonized. This is done by way of dystopia and science fiction, that is, by a close reading of two disturbing but revealing fiction stories: Oscar Cook’s 1931 short tale Boomerang (adapted for TV in 1972 as The Caterpillar in Rod Serling’s series Night Gallery) and Hector Berlioz’s futuristic novella Euphonia, or the Musical City. Finally, this afterword hints at the fact that Talking Machine Empires might be not just about Latin America and the Caribbean.