Sonic spaces, spiritual bodies: The affective experience of the roots reggae soundsystem
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Sonic spaces, spiritual bodies: The affective experience of the roots reggae soundsystem

This paper advances a new understanding of spirituality within the geographies of religion. It builds on the premise that spirituality is latent within every body, and argues that it becomes manifest in response to an affective experience. Such experiences are often sensory in nature, rendering spiritual affect an embodied phenomenon that can be understood through the concept of an “embodied hierophany”.
SHEBEEN : NOTHING BUT A HOUSE PARTY
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SHEBEEN : NOTHING BUT A HOUSE PARTY

It is not a glamorous room; the ground floor of a small terrace house. Weasel has made an effort to smarten it up; there are posters of reggae artists, Earth, Wind & Fire, Gladys Knight and, stuck incongruously over a speaker, a big poster for The Great Rock & Roll Swindle; holes peel back from the walls, showing the bare skeleton of wood.