Sonic Bodies
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Sonic Bodies

Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing

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Sonic Bodies

Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing

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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 hyping up the crowd. Julian Henriques proposes that these dancehall "vibes" are taken literally as the periodic motion of vibrations. He offers an analysis of how a sound system operates - at auditory, corporeal and sociocultural frequencies. Sonic Bodies formulates a fascinating critique of visual dominance and the dualities inherent in ideas of image, text or discourse. This innovative book questions the assumptions that reason resides only in a disembodied mind, that communication is an exchange of information, and that meaning is only ever representation.

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Publisher
Continuum
Year
2011
ISBN
9781441149343
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music History & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Figures
  4. Preamble: Thinking Through Sound
  5. Introduction: Practising and Theorising Sounding
  6. Chapter One
  7. The Dancehall Scene
  8. Chapter Two
  9. Sound Systems
  10. Part One
  11. The Audio Engineer and the Material Waveband
  12. Chapter Three
  13. Fine-tuning
  14. Chapter Four
  15. Learning to Listen
  16. Part Two
  17. The Selector and the Corporeal Waveband
  18. Chapter Five
  19. Juggling
  20. Chapter Six
  21. Cut, Mix ’n’ Rewind
  22. Part Three
  23. The MC and the Sociocultural Waveband
  24. Chapter Seven
  25. Voicing
  26. Chapter Eight
  27. Rhetoric and the Logic of Practice
  28. Chapter Nine
  29. Conclusion: The Sonic Logos
  30. Last Word: Dubwise
  31. Notes
  32. Bibliography
  33. Index