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Music in the time-spectrum: routines, spaces and emotional experience

Sinclair, Gary orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-2181-7736, Tinson, Julie and Dolan, Paddy orcid logoORCID: 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

Abstract
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.
Metadata
Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Music streaming; figurational sociology; sparetime spectrum; work; leisure
Subjects:Business > Consumer behaviour
Social Sciences > Sociology
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > DCU Business School
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Official URL:https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2019.1597147
Copyright Information:© 2019 Taylor & Francis
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:This work was supported by the British Academy [SG142059]
ID Code:26809
Deposited On:20 Oct 2022 13:49 by Gary Sinclair . Last Modified 20 Oct 2022 13:51
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