Editorial: Vibratory Movements

Trower, Shelley

doi:10.2752/174589308x306385

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“…This path has lately been pursued by a number of undertakings in body studies and cultural theory across investigative areas from dance and music cultures to war as with Shelly Trower and others (see e.g. Trower, 2008, 2012).…”

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Rhythm Returns: Movement and Cultural Theory

2014

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This introduction charts several of rhythm's various returns as a way of laying out the theoretical and methodological field in which the articles of this special issue find their place. While Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis is perhaps familiar to many, rhythm has appeared in a wide repertoire of guises, in many disciplines over the decades and indeed the centuries. This introduction attends to the particular roles of rhythm in the formation of modernity ranging from the processes of industrialization and the proliferation of new media technologies to film and literary aesthetics as well as conceptualizations of human psychology, social behaviour and physiology. These are some of the historical antecedents to the contemporary understandings of rhythm within body studies to which most of the contributions to this issue are devoted. In this respect, the introduction outlines recent approaches to rhythm as vibration, a force of the virtual, and an intensive excess outside consciousness.

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Rhythm Returns: Movement and Cultural Theory

2014

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“…' (1988: 313). British scholars have also addressed the issue of vibrations with a special issue of Senses & Society journal (Ridout, 2008;Shail, 2008;Trower, 2008aTrower, , 2008b.…”

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The Vibrations of Affect and their Propagation on a Night Out on Kingston’s Dancehall Scene

Henriques

2010

Body & Society

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This article proposes that the propagation of vibrations could serve as a better model for understanding the transmission of affect than the flow, circulation or movement of bodies by which it is most often theorized. The vibrations (or idiomatically ‘vibes’) among the sound system audience (or ‘crowd’) on a night out on the dancehall scene in Kingston, Jamaica, provide an example. Counting the repeating frequencies of these vibrations in a methodology inspired by Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis results in a Frequency Spectrogram. This ranges from the sociocultural frequencies of nightly, weekly and seasonal cycles and circulations of musical style and fashion, to the material frequencies of the amplitudes and timbres of sound itself, with reggae’s signature low-pitched bass-line, to the corporeal frequencies of the flesh and blood of the dancehall ‘crowd’, pulsating with heartbeats and kinetic dance rhythms. The vibration model then addresses the intensities of affect in terms of auditory amplitudes, as with sonic dominance; feelings as frequencies; and the distinctive meaning of affect as timbre. This aims to encourage the radical impulse of the idea of affect to abandon the traditional envelope of the autonomous, self-consistent, rational individual. The meaning of affect is thus located in the ratio, proportions and patterning of vibrations, that is, outside the discourse of emotions or representation of feelings.

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Undulations and Vibrations, Tonalities and Harmonies: Nabokov, Acoustics and the Otherworld

Metzger¹

2020

The Five Senses in Nabokov's Works

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Editorial: Vibratory Movements

Cited by 10 publications

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Rhythm Returns: Movement and Cultural Theory

Rhythm Returns: Movement and Cultural Theory

The Vibrations of Affect and their Propagation on a Night Out on Kingston’s Dancehall Scene

Undulations and Vibrations, Tonalities and Harmonies: Nabokov, Acoustics and the Otherworld

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