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Sound Moves

This innovative study opens up a new area in sociological and urban studies: the aural experience of the social, mediated through mobile technologies of communication.

Whilst we live in a world dominated by visual epistemologies of urban experience, Michael Bull argues that it is not surprising that the Apple iPod is the first consumer cultural icon of the twenty-first century. Sound Moves, in using the example of the iPod, investigates the way in which we use sound to construct key areas of our daily lives. The author argues that the Apple iPod acts as an urban Sherpa for many of its users and in doing so joins the mobile army of technologies that many of us habitually use to accompany our daily lives.

Through our use of such mobile and largely sound based devices, Sound Moves demonstrates how and why the spaces of the city are being transformed right in front of our ears.

This text is essential for undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of Sociology of Culture, Urban Studies and Media and Communication Studies.

Michael Bull is Reader in Media and Film Studies at the University of Sussex.

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Sound Moves

iPod culture and urban experience

Michael Bull

First published 2007
by Routledge

Published 2015 by Routledge
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Contents

Time away from my desk to begin this project was generously funded by the AHRC which enabled me to sift through the primary research data which I collected in 2004.

Initial thoughts on the nature of iPod culture have been presented at lectures given at Transmediale in Berlin and at the universities of Maastricht, Budapest, Nottingham, Vadstena, Berlin, Bremen and Amsterdam. My thanks to the critical questions that I frequently received.

Much of my time whilst writing this book has been taken up in lengthy media interviews on the nature and meaning of the iPod phenomenon. These interviews permitted me to clarify my thoughts on the topic, and so I would like to thank the often inquisitive and intellectually curious journalists from The New York Times, BBC Online News, The Economist, Newsweek, Il Manifesto, LExpress, LIberation, The Sydney Morning Herald, The San Francisco Times, The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Herald Tribune, The Edmonton Journal, Svenska Dagbladet and The Financial Times, Germany amongst others, who interviewed me.

Thanks also to the staff at Routledge who have been most supportive of my late manuscript which has been subject of the contingencies of the authors life over the last two years.

I would also like to thank Barry Selwyn and Stanley Unsworth for their support and friendship over the years and last but not least to Rosalinde for providing sanity and endless support at home and to Theo for bringing the sounds of laughter into my everyday life.

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Sound moves, iPod culture and urban experience

My iPod goes everywhere with me. Its like my digital Sherpa for information and entertainment.

(iPod user)

I store my valuables on the iPod. I completed three screenplays, which I data warehouse on my iPod. If the house burns down, I am not worried, because the iPod has the family jewels.

(iPod user)

When I leave the house I check my pockets for four things: my wallet, my keys, my mobile phone, and my iPod. I never go out without all four on my person.

(iPod user)

Spatial structures are the dreams of society. Whenever the hieroglyph of any such spatial structure is decoded, the foundation of the social reality is revealed.

(Kracauer 1995: 30)

The media do not simply occupy time and space, they also structure it and give it meaning.

(Livingstone 2002: 81)

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