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Sonic Bodies - Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing (Hardcover, New)
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Sonic Bodies - Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing (Hardcover, New)
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Breaking new ground in the field of Sound Studies, this book
provides an in-depth study of the culture and physicality of
dancehall reggae music. The reggae sound system has exerted a major
influence on music and popular culture. Every night, on the streets
of inner city Kingston, Jamaica, Dancehall sessions stage a
visceral, immersive and immensely pleasurable experience of sonic
dominance for the participating crowd. "Sonic Bodies" concentrates
on the skilled performance of the crewmembers responsible for this
signature of Jamaican music: the audio engineers designing,
building and fine-tuning the hugely powerful "set" of equipment;
the selectors choosing the music tracks played; and, MCs (DJs) on
the mic hyping up the crowd. Julian Henriques proposes that these
dancehall "vibes" are taken literally as the periodic movement of
vibrations, and offers an analysis of how a sound system operates -
not only at auditory, but also at corporeal and sociocultural
frequencies. "Sonic Bodies" formulates a fascinating auditory
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 the mind, that
communication is an exchange of information and that meaning is
only ever representation.
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