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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Continuum,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- The dancehall scene. Jamaican auditory culture ; Three wavebands of sounding ; Three-fold relationships ; Theoretical context
- Sound systems. Instruments ; Media ; Techniques
- The audio engineer and the material waveband. Fine-tuning. Audio engineering ; Manipulating ; Monitoring ; Evaluating
- Learning to listen. Learning to engineer ; Apprenticeship tradition ; A research methodology of listening ; Sonic engineering
- The selector and the corporeal waveband. Juggling. The selector's role and function in the session ; Skilled performance techniques
- Cut, mix 'n' rewind. Cut and splice ; Mixing ; Rewind and repetition
- The MC and the sociocultural waveband. Voicing. The MC's role in the session ; Lyrical techniques ; Performance tropes ; Personality
- Rhetoric and the logic of practice. An ancient art of communication ; Ways of knowing ; Situatedness; The logic of practice ; Measure and value
- Conclusion. The sonic logos. Know-what and know-how ; Sounding a critique ; Logos as ratio, proportion and patterning ; Triangulation
- Last word: Dubwise.