Pump up the Bass—Rhythm, Cars, and Auditory Scaffolding

LaBelle, Brandon

doi:10.2752/174589308x306420

Cited by 25 publications

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“…Perhaps no other material possession in modern society so publicly objectifies and projects personal and social systems of value (Miller, 2001); therefore, similar to readings of style, gait, and argot used to determine gang membership and criminality, a car’s modified components, like its contribution to alternative soundscapes (LaBelle, 2008) and display of ‘suspicious rhythms’ (Cresswell, 2010: 26), subject drivers and sometimes passengers to categorization and criminalization. Noise emitted from sound and exhaust systems, customized mufflers and hydraulic set-ups, as well as the aftermarket installation of tinted windows, rims, and modified head and tail lights, become grounds for conducting traffic stops and issuing equipment violations.…”

Section: Theorizing Car Space In the Social Sciencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policing car space and the legal liminality of the automobile

Bloch

2020

Progress in Human Geography

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The car is a primary locus for police-civilian interaction as measured by routine legal intrusion into the lives of vulnerable populations – communities of color, undocumented immigrants, and those experiencing homelessness in particular. It is the car’s ability to transport bodies as well as its legal liminality as a hybrid public-private space that facilitates such coercive and carceral contact. I therefore argue for the increased inclusion of the car and contact made with its operators and occupants within studies of policing by geographers. In this article, I provide a review of how car space and the automobile have been discussed by social scientists more broadly, followed by a call for geographers to take the lead in centering the car in research looking at everyday policing and routinized state control of people occupying and moving through public space.

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Section: Theorizing Car Space In the Social Sciencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policing car space and the legal liminality of the automobile

Bloch

2020

Progress in Human Geography

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“…Downey (2005) aptly points out that before we reflect on music, we are already culturally conditioned to be attentive to and perceive it through bodily habit and comportment. Furthermore, DeNora (2000) and LaBelle (2008) also suggest that music often forms the rhythmic scaffolding for the everyday life of individuals, as individuals latch onto musical frames, thereby generating the means for ordering and organizing a sense of self within varied environments. Forms of ‘auditory latching’ (LaBelle 2008) can be located within musical experience and a relation to self and a world modulated by musical structures.…”

Section: Sensing Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, DeNora (2000) and LaBelle (2008) also suggest that music often forms the rhythmic scaffolding for the everyday life of individuals, as individuals latch onto musical frames, thereby generating the means for ordering and organizing a sense of self within varied environments. Forms of ‘auditory latching’ (LaBelle 2008) can be located within musical experience and a relation to self and a world modulated by musical structures. Musical rhythms, then, operate as devices for entrainment, insofar as they involve the alignment of bodily features with some continuous features in the environment (DeNora 2000).…”

Section: Sensing Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

Sensing violence: An ethnography of mixed martial arts

Spencer

2013

Ethnography

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This article describes the sensory experiences of fighting through an ethnography of mixed martial arts (MMA). MMA is an emergent sport where competitors in a ring or cage utilize strikes (punches, kicks, elbows, and knees) as well as submission techniques to defeat opponents. This sensory ethnography involves, inter alia, the documentation of the rhythms pertaining to the cadence of drills, the flow of sparring and grappling sessions, the attunement of bodies to other bodies through touch, the beat of music accompanying training sessions, the smell of sweat and flatulence, and the throbbing pain that is registered through taste. This article relies on 45 in-depth interviews with mixed martial art fighters and participant observation over a four-year period.

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“…Thompson () calls “rough music”, disturbs the affective relations that emanate from the sounds of police sirens, onlookers and even wind moving through the trees. The streets of Helensburgh were temporarily transformed by the rough music generating “links, stoppages, bolts and rivets to the existing architecture of time and space” (LaBelle :190). Instead, it was the percussive rhythms of pots and pans that became an impressionable force.…”

Section: Capacities To Embody Climate Actionmentioning

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A Visceral Politics of Sound

2013

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Questions of bodies and embodiment are a critical focus for geographers. In this paper we advance discussion of the mobilisation of bodies that investigates the interconnections between the visceral and discursive, through paying attention to the affordances of sound. We draw on our ethnographic research of the Climate Camp parade held during October 2009 in Helensburgh, New South Wales, Australia. Using feminist theory and visceral understandings of socio-political life, we explore sounds to illustrate how people's beliefs about climate change are mobilised at this parade. We argue that visceral experiences of the rhythmic affordances of sounds-flow, pulse and beat-provide us insights as to how people are mobilised into action. Our results explore bodily judgements of sounds to illustrate how a visceral approach can help to mobilise bodies in ways that can both upset, and reproduce, particular beliefs, subjects and places.

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Pump up the Bass—Rhythm, Cars, and Auditory Scaffolding

Cited by 25 publications

References 6 publications

Policing car space and the legal liminality of the automobile

Policing car space and the legal liminality of the automobile

Sensing violence: An ethnography of mixed martial arts

A Visceral Politics of Sound

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