Sonic Street Technologies ERC research project

Description

Sonic Street Technologies (SST) is a European Research Council (ERC) funded research project (2021 – 2025) examining the role and value of bottom up, subaltern and Global South uses of recorded music technologies. Jamaican sound systems, Brazilian aparelhagem, Mexican sonideros and Colombian picos provide good examples. The project aims to map the distribution and history of these SST worldwide; to investigate the social, economic and cultural conditions from which they are born; and to achieve a deeper understanding of the nature of technology itself and its uses for social and economic progress. SST adopts a practice-as-research methodology as a respect for the knowledge embodied in current sound system and similar street cultures and to help build capacities for their autonomous development.

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Founding year

2021

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Goldsmiths, University of London
London

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Sound System Outernational

Sound System Outernational is a research group of practitioners and researchers, based at Goldsmiths, University of London, dedicated to recognising, stimulating and supporting sound system culture wo… read more about Sound System Outernational

London

Additional Partnerships

Unit 137; Young Warrior; Let's Go Yorkshire; Roots Injection; CAYA Sound; Legs Eleven; Nzinga Soundz; Sound System Culture; DanceCult Magazine; British Association of Sound Systems; Society for Social Studies of Science (4S); Society for Cultural Anthropology; Sound Studies Lab; Bababoom Hi Fi, Italy; University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica; Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale, Italy; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil; CIPHER, University College Cork, Ireland