Ethno-Aesthetics of Surf in Florida - Surfing, Musicking, and Identity Marking (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

Ethno-aesthetics of Surf in Florida discusses surf and music as glocal sociocultural constructs. Focusing on Florida's unexplored surfing culture, the book illustrates how musical experience begets representations about the world that highlight ways of acting and being of various sociocultural communities. Based on the conceptualization of ethno-aesthetics, this ethnographic study provides an analysis of the Space Coast surfers community's collaborative effort to build social cohesion through their musicking. This transdisciplinary research in American Studies draws upon various theoretical perspectives from both the humanities and social sciences, including ethnomusicology, social psychology, and sociolinguistics, to propose new ways of exploring the links between surfing and musicking. This monograph looks past the myth of iconic 1960s Californian surf music to show how, as a result of the glocalization of surfing, the musicking of Floridian surfers has allowed them to express their subjectivities and to make sense of their world. This book contributes to the debate on the disputed notions of identity and representations by establishing connections between a local expression of the surf lifestyle and its music. It proposes theoretical models that explain cultural hybridization, appropriation, and belonging in surfing. It also develops concepts and notions, such as surfanization, surf strand, lifestyle crossover, and identity marking, to illustrate how global practices, such as surfing, are endowed with various modes of expression exemplified by the emergence of unique regional subcultures of surfing.

General

Imprint:	Springer Verlag, Singapore
Country of origin:	Singapore
Release date:	September 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Anne Barjolin-Smith
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	339
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-981-15-7477-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Leisure Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > Music > General
LSN:	981-15-7477-4
Barcode:	9789811574771

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