In between drinks: time, sociability and popular music at city bars
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https://doi.org/10.18568/cmc.v15i42.1557Keywords:
urban space, popular music, squares, sonorities, temporalitiesAbstract
Framing Savassi Square (BH-MG-BR) as an empirical object, we try to analyze how is it possible to experience superimposed temporalities in contiguous spaces through combining forms of sociability and choices of repertoire, in two different bars located at this region. Our field work employs different formats of data (audio recordings, digital photos and videos and written accounts) on those uses of space gathered during drifts through this square. Thus, we discuss how people modulate acoustic properties (intensity, frequency and spatiality) of the sonorities they employ and different musical repertoires for producing “place”. This idea is reinforced by the understanding that in place time experience is “intersubjective”, so it’s socially and spatially localized. Popular music, inserted in this setting, plays a significant role at the conformation of social and historical experience of different groups that co-inhabit and dispute the city.
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