Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing

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Preamble. Thinking through sound. The time and place of sounding ; Body of sound ; Body of thought ; The argument of Sonic bodies -- Introduction. Practising and theorising sounding -- The dancehall scene. Jamaican auditory culture ; Three wavebands of sounding ; Three-fold relationships ; Theoretical context -- Sound systems. Instruments ; Media ; Techniques. Preamble. Thinking through sound. The time and place of sounding Body of sound Body of thought The argument of Sonic bodies -- Introduction. Practising and theorising sounding -- The dancehall scene. Jamaican auditory culture Three wavebands of sounding Three-fold relationships Theoretical context -- Sound systems. Instruments Media Techniques. The audio engineer and the material waveband. Fine-tuning. Audio engineering Manipulating Monitoring Evaluating -- Learning to listen. Learning to engineer Apprenticeship tradition A research methodology of listening Sonic engineering. The selector and the corporeal waveband. Juggling. The selector's role and function in the session Skilled performance techniques -- Cut, mix 'n' rewind. Cut and splice Mixing Rewind and repetition. The MC and the sociocultural waveband. Voicing. The MC's role in the session Lyrical techniques Performance tropes Personality -- Rhetoric and the logic of practice. An ancient art of communication Ways of knowing Situatedness The logic of practice Measure and value -- Conclusion. The sonic logos. Know-what and know-how Sounding a critique Logos as ratio, proportion and patterning Triangulation -- Last word: Dubwise.