Music in the time-spectrum: routines, spaces and emotional experience
Sinclair, GaryORCID: 0000-0002-2181-7736, Tinson, Julie and Dolan, PaddyORCID: 0000-0002-0086-8382
(2019)
Music in the time-spectrum: routines, spaces and emotional experience.
Leisure Studies, 38
(4).
pp. 509-522.
ISSN 0261-4367
Music streaming, structured by an expanding network of social interdependencies (e.g. musicians, sound engineers, computer scientists and distributors) has made it easier to consume music in a wider number of social and
private spaces and to a greater degree. This paper examines the emotional
experience of contemporary music consumption by drawing from an
Eliasian perspective, specifically Elias and Dunning’s sociology of leisure.
We explore the relationship between work, spare time and leisure spaces,
rather than examining specific spaces in isolation. We argue that music is
used to demarcate, transition between, and blur space. Music plays an
important role in facilitating the rhythm of routine, helping individuals to
adjust to the demands of different spaces (based on varying intensities and
immediacies of social pressures) and manage mood. The key characteristics
of leisure that Elias and Dunning identify (motility, sociability and mimetic
tension) are explored across the spectrum of time and space.
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Article (Published)
Refereed:
Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:
Music streaming; figurational sociology; sparetime spectrum; work; leisure