Places of “heat and noise”: sonorous presence and the interstitial time-spaces of everyday life in contemporary Beijing

Richaud, Lisa

doi:10.1080/17458927.2020.1852721

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“…One of the ways that affect may be awoken and transferred from one body to another is through sound as it can trigger bodily responses, direct attention and even guide people's paths. 48 As a vibrant matter, sound has the capacity to flow between bodies and things and to put them into motion. 49 Gallagher 50 has argued that sound itself is a kind of affect that moves bodies with vibrations that physically push and pull their material fabric.…”

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“¡Tengo gloria bendita!”: pitching and the sonic production of place atmospheres under increasing marketplace regulation

Lindmäe

2022

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This paper studies the sonic production of weekly markets through an analysis of the acoustic tactics employed by both authorized and unauthorized traders in two street markets of Catalonia. A three-fold typology of pitchers – the Repeaters, the Influencers and the Silenced – is presented to illustrate the different levels of creativity at play in contesting marketplace regulations that prohibit this “noisy” form of advertising. The paper builds on Jacques Attali’s1 idea of the control of sound and noise being inscribed in the panoply of power; a noisy market is thus understood as a statement against the authorities and as a failure to orchestrate a harmonious public space atmosphere. It is argued that as a professional skill and a cultural practice that is illegitimized by market regulations that aim to invoke civic behavior and stage representational place atmospheres, pitching contests dominant place narratives by involving creativity, affect and a political desire of recognition of difference. As such, pitching can shape more diverse marketplace atmospheres where the meanings of order and control are not unequivocal.

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Section: Sonic Affect and Marketplace Atmospheresmentioning

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“¡Tengo gloria bendita!”: pitching and the sonic production of place atmospheres under increasing marketplace regulation

Lindmäe

2022

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“…Over the past years, the success of concepts such as resistance or everyday politics has too often led social scientists to analyse a wide range of behaviours -from informal economic activities to chorale performances via youth culture-as an expression of agency by the oppressed, the repressed, and the subaltern, in a multicultural environment. The question is therefore to what extent can we look at users' activities in public spaces through the lens of politics, when playfulness, sensorial and emotional experiences prevail in the analysis (Farquhar 2009;Qian 2014b;Richaud 2020Richaud , 2021)?…”

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Public spaces in late socialist East Asia: Interactions, performativity, citizenship

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2020

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Places of “heat and noise”: sonorous presence and the interstitial time-spaces of everyday life in contemporary Beijing

Cited by 2 publications

References 48 publications

“¡Tengo gloria bendita!”: pitching and the sonic production of place atmospheres under increasing marketplace regulation

“¡Tengo gloria bendita!”: pitching and the sonic production of place atmospheres under increasing marketplace regulation

Public spaces in late socialist East Asia: Interactions, performativity, citizenship

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