ISBN:
9786613307736
,
1283307731
,
9781441149343
,
9781283307734
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XXXVI, 352 S.)
,
Ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Sonic Bodies
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Henriques, Julian Sonic bodies
DDC:
781.646097292
Keywords:
Reggae music History and criticism
;
Dancehall (Music) History and criticism
;
Dancehall (Music)
;
Jamaica
;
History and criticism
;
Reggae
;
Rezeption
;
Hören
;
Dance hall
;
Rezeption
;
Hören
;
Jamaika
;
Kultur
;
Hören
;
Jamaika
;
Reggae
;
Performance
;
Audiotechnik
;
Jamaika
;
Dance hall
;
Performance
;
Audiotechnik
Abstract:
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 Bodies concentrates on the skilled performance of the crewmembers responsible for this signature sound of Jamaican music: the audio engineers designing, building and fine-tuning the hugely powerful "sets" of equipment; the selectors choosing the music tracks to play; and MCs(DJs) on the mic hyp
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-348) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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