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Journal article
Making a day out of records: Phonographic pedagogies of the Afro-sonic diaspora
The Review of education/pedagogy/cultural studies, Vol.46(5), pp.836-856
19/10/2024
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Abstract
This article develops the concept of "low-end phonographic pedagogies" through a life-long engagement with vinyl records and the Afro-diasporic music practices of reggae, dub, and dancehall. Approaching my record collection as a counter-archive of vibrational feeling and learning, I explore everyday practices of playing and listening to records as a field of inquiry into the pedagogical potentials of phonographic technologies. Focusing on the dub styles of record production and bass-heavy sound systems that have spread globally from Jamaica since the 1970s, the article engages scholarship in decolonial sound studies and process philosophy to explore the vibratory, affective, and social dynamics of sub-bass frequencies and polyrhythms. This leads to a conceptualization of low-end phonographic pedagogies as situated within a wider continuum of vibratory learning events that stretch from the sub-atomic to the cosmic.
Details
- Title
- Making a day out of records: Phonographic pedagogies of the Afro-sonic diaspora
- Creators
- David Rousell
- Publication Details
- The Review of education/pedagogy/cultural studies, Vol.46(5), pp.836-856
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Number of pages
- 21
- Identifiers
- 991013179903202368
- Copyright
- © 2024 the author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, this is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article