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Index
Preface
Acknowledgements
Preamble: Thinking Through Sound
The time and place of sounding
Body of thought
The argument of Sonic Bodies
Introduction: Practising and Theorising Sounding
1. The Dancehall Scene
Jamaican auditory culture
Three wavebands of sounding
Three-fold relationships
Theoretical context
2. Sound Systems
Instruments
Media
Techniques
Part 1. The Audio Engineer and the Material Waveband
3. Fine-tuning
Audio engineering
Manipulating
Monitoring
Evaluating
4. Learning to Listen
Learning to engineer
Apprenticeship tradition
A research methodology of listening
Sonic engineering
Part 2. The Selector and the Corporeal Waveband
5. Juggling
The selector’s role and function in the session
Skilled performance techniques
6. Cut, Mix ’n’ Rewind
Cut and splice
Mixing
Rewind and repetition
Part 3. The MC and the Sociocultural Waveband
7. Voicing
The MC’s role in the session
Lyrical techniques
Performance tropes
Personality
8. Rhetoric and the Logic of Practice
An ancient art of communication
Ways of knowing
Situatedness
The logic of practice
Measure and value
9. Conclusion: The Sonic Logos
Know-what and know-how
Sounding a critique
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