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Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture
An oral history of the UK’s soundsystem culture, featuring interviews with Dubmaster Dennis Bovell, Skream, Youth, Norman Jay MBE, Adrian Sherwood, Mala, and others. In the years following the arrival of the Windrush generation, the UK’s soundsystem culture would become…
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Future Sounds: The Temporality of Noise Stephen Kennedy What can the sounds of today tell us about the future? Can an analysis of sound and sonic practices allow us to make reliable predictions in relation to wider social phenomena? And…
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Transcultural Sound Practices: British Asian Dance Music as Cultural Transformation Carla J. Maier Listening to the sound practices of bands and musicians such as the Asian Dub Foundation or M.I.A., and spanning three decades of South Asian dance music production…
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Low End Theory Paul C. Jasen Low End Theory probes the much-mythologized field of bass and low-frequency sound. It begins in music but quickly moves far beyond, following vibratory phenomena across time, disciplines and disparate cultural spheres (including hauntings, laboratories,…