Abstract
Based on an ethnographic multi-sited fieldwork, this article analyzes alternative rhythms of youth culture. The aim is to illustrate how young people improvise and organize rhythms in the city as a part of their place-making. I develop the concept of a spatial jam session, which provides a framework suitable for analyzing spatial dimension of contemporary youth culture. Developing Henri Lefebvre’s rhythm analysis through empirical material, a phenomenological understanding of place and jazz theory contributes an analytical framework that takes bodily, material, spatial and temporal dimensions of the place-making practices of young people into account. Using the concept of a spatial jam session, I argue that a central aspect of young people’s place-making is being able to improvise through materiality, sociality, cultural norms and musical expression. I illustrate how young people create spatial and temporal obstructions in order to maintain a practice of improvising, which to these young people is a way of constructing meaning in everyday life.
Bidragets oversatte titel | Urban jamming: Unges selvorganiserede steds konstruktioner |
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Originalsprog | Engelsk |
Tidsskrift | Young |
Vol/bind | 25 |
Udgave nummer | 3 |
Sider (fra-til) | 286-304 |
Antal sider | 18 |
ISSN | 1103-3088 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 2017 |
Udgivet eksternt | Ja |
Kunstnerisk udviklingsvirksomhed (KUV)
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