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The basement of a veteran shopping mall located in the central business district of Singapore affords opportunities to a group of amateur and semi-professional musicians, of different ethnicities, ages, and generations to make a sonic way of life. Based on five years of deep participatory experience, this multi-modal (text, musical composition, social media, performance) sonic ethnography is centered around a community of noisy people who make rock music within the constraints of urban life in Singapore. The heart and soul of this community is English Language rock and roll music pioneered in Singapore by several members of the 1960s legendary beats and blues band, The Straydogs, who continue to engage this community in a sonic way of life. Grounded in debates from sound studies, Ferzacca draws on Bruno Latours ideas of the socialcontinually emergent, constantly in-the-making, associations of heterogeneous elements of human and non-human mediators and intermediariesto portray a community entangled in the confounding relations between vernacular and national heritage projects. Music shops, music gear, music genres, sound, urban space, neighborhoods, State presence, performance venue

Author

Ferzacca, Steve, 1954- author

Publisher

National University of Singapore Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9789813251083

Subjects

Music, Arts