Henriques, Julian F.. 2015. 'Every spoil is a style: voicing, absence and echo in reggae dub music'. In: False Alarm: Aurality, Errancy and Voice. Kings College London, United Kingdom. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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This talk, illustrated with several music tracks, explores aurality, errancy and voice through some of the voicing techniques, aesthetics and phonographic technologies of the reggae dancehall sound system. These are geared towards "building the vibes" or increasing the affective intensities for the crowd or audience. This is often achieved by means of error, interference and distortion that might be considered undesirable outside the sensibilities of the scene. But in the dancehall this provides a rich repertoire of phonographic techniques, namely auralities that involve adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. These make a major contribution to the aesthetic of the Jamaican street culture of dancehall.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Keywords:	voicing techniques, aesthetics, phonographic technologies
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Media, Communications and Cultural Studies > Topology Research Unit
Dates:	Date Event 25 June 2015 UNSPECIFIED
Event Location:	Kings College London, United Kingdom
Item ID:	18824
Date Deposited:	17 Aug 2016 16:34
Last Modified:	21 Aug 2019 10:16
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/18824

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