Sonic bodies reggae sound systems, performance techniques, and ways of knowing
The reggae sound system has exerted a major influence on music and popular culture. Out on the streets of inner city Kingston, Jamaica, every night, sound systems stage dancehall sessions for the crowd to share the immediate, intensive and immersive visceral pleasures of sonic dominance. Sonic Bodie...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Continuum
2011.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b35564118*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Acknowledgements; Figures; Preamble: Thinking Through Sound; The time and place of sounding; Body of sound; Body of thought; The argument of Sonic Bodies; Introduction: Practising and Theorising Sounding; Chapter One; The Dancehall Scene; Jamaican auditory culture; Three wavebands of sounding; Three-fold relationships; Theoretical context; Chapter Two; Sound Systems; Instruments; Media; Techniques; Part One; The Audio Engineer and the Material Waveband; Chapter Three; Fine-tuning; Audio engineering; Manipulating; Monitoring; Evaluating; Chapter Four; Learning to Listen.
- Learning to engineerApprenticeship tradition; A research methodology of listening; Sonic engineering; Part Two; The Selector and the Corporeal Waveband; Chapter Five; Juggling; The selector's role and function in the session; Skilled performance techniques; Chapter Six; Cut, Mix 'n' Rewind; Cut and splice; Mixing; Rewind and repetition; Part Three; The MC and the Sociocultural Waveband; Chapter Seven; Voicing; The MC's role in the session; Lyrical techniques; Performance tropes; Personality; Chapter Eight; Rhetoric and the Logic of Practice; An ancient art of communication; Ways of knowing.
- SituatednessThe logic of practice; Measure and value; Chapter Nine; Conclusion: The Sonic Logos; Know-what and know-how; Sounding a critique; Logos as ratio, proportion and patterning; Triangulation; Last Word: Dubwise; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
