‘And she flies! Beautiful’: the dislocating geography of football sound

Authors

  • Margaret Trail

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/co201311315-322

Keywords:

sonic geography, sound art, football sound

Abstract

The overarching interest of this paper is in articulating the affective conditions of football’s play. It undertakes this through a consideration of the sonorous dimension of football, mapping its sounds across a framework borrowed from recent writings on sound-art and sonic geography. Specifically it considers a continuum articulated by Will Scrimshaw (in relation to sound art exploring spatial notions), between sounds-of-place and sound-as-a-place. It then places sounds produced in football-play across this continuum, to see whether football’s sonic practices can be more finely articulated through doing so, and might in turn shed light on its affective conditions.

Author Biography

Margaret Trail

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