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Prelims

Rhythmanalysis

ISBN: 978-1-83909-973-1, eISBN: 978-1-83909-972-4

ISSN: 1047-0042

Publication date: 26 November 2021

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(2021), "Prelims", Lyon, D. (Ed.) Rhythmanalysis (Research in Urban Sociology, Vol. 17), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xv. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1047-004220210000017020

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Rhythmanalysis

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Research in Urban Sociology

Series Editor: Ray Hutchison

Recent Volumes:

Volume 1: Race, Class and Urban Change, 1989
Volume 2: Gentrification and Urban Change, 1992
Volume 3: Urban Sociology in Transition, 1993
Volume 4: New Directions of Urban Sociology, 1997
Volume 5: Constructions of Urban Space, 2000
Volume 6: Critical Perspectives on Urban Redevelopment, 2001
Volume 7: Race and Ethnicity in New York City, 2004
Volume 8: Ethnic Landscapes in an Urban World, 2006
Volume 9: Gender in an Urban World, 2008
Volume 10: Suburbanization in Global Society, 2010
Volume 11: Everyday Life in the Segmented City, 2011
Volume 12: Urban Areas and Global Climate Change, 2012
Volume 13: Urban Megaprojects: A Worldwide View, 2013
Volume 14: From Sustainable to Resilient Cities: Global Concerns and Urban Efforts, 2014
Volume 15: Public Spaces: Times of Crisis and Change, 2017
Volume 16: Urban Ethnography: Legacies and Challenges, 2019

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Rhythmanalysis: Place, Mobility, Disruption and Performance

Edited by

Dawn Lyon

University of Kent, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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List of Figures

Chapter 2 – From the Balcony to Caminito: An Ongoing Rhuthmanalysis
Figure 1. Photographs of Caminito and surrounding streets.
Figure 2. Frame from a video that I made in La Boca.
Figure 3. Drawing by Waman Puma and my copy.
Chapter 3 – Eurhythmia and Arrythmia: Understanding Gendered Performances through Rhythm in the City of London
Figure 1. Men expressing spatial and rhythmic confidence in the streets.
Figure 2. Men drinking at lunchtime – where are the women?
Chapter 4 – Slow Motion Streets: Exploring Everyday Super-diversity in a London Neighbourhood through Video Rhythmanalysis
Figure 1. Key ‘arteries’ of Finsbury Park Map.
Figure 2. Split screen used in Slow Motion Streets.
Figure 3. Mobile phones present on the street, screenshots from Slow Motion Streets.
Figure 4. Stuff of the street, screenshots from Slow Motion Streets.
Figure 5. Signs and posters displayed in the street, screenshots from Slow Motion Streets.
Figure 6. Particular textures of place, screenshots from Slow Motion Streets.
Figure 7. Bodies brushing against each other while passing on relatively wide empty pavements, screenshots from Slow Motion Streets.
Figure 8. Bodies and clothes in proximity, screenshots from Slow Motion Streets.
Figure 9. The street as a familial place and a site of cosmopolitan sociality, screenshots from Slow Motion Streets.
Figure 10. Using split screen to represent multiple temporalities that constitute place, screenshots from Slow Motion Streets.
Chapter 5 – Rhythm as Energy in Space and Time: Engaging Rhythmanalysis with Climate Change and Urban Mobility Transitions
Figure 1. Car fuelling versus bicycle fuelling.
Chapter 6 – Street Rhythms in the ‘Twilight Zone’ – Crepuscular Urban Mobility Rhythms and Their Effects on the Atmospheres of Street Space
Figure 1. The observed sites.
Figure 2. Temporal architecture of the street, produced by motor vehicles in motion.
Figure 3. Dusk atmospheres and embodied appropriations of space (site: Itsenäisyydenkatu).
Figure 4. Dusk atmospheres (site: Eerikinkatu).
Figure 5. Street atmospheres during dawn, day-time and dusk (sites Itsenäisyydenkatu and Hämeenkatu, Tampere).
Chapter 8 – Interlude: In Saint-Paul-de-Vence
Figure 1. Town square.
Figure 2. Nu à Contre-jour.
Figure 3. Alleyway.
Figure 4. Archway.
Figure 5. Steps.
Chapter 9 – Recovering from a Disaster: A Rhythmanalytic Approach to Everyday Life in L'Aquila, Italy
Figure 1. L'Aquila's central square, Piazza Duomo.
Figure 2. A housing unit of the project C.A.S.E., located on the outskirts of the city.
Figure 3. A door in via Bominaco.
Figure 4. ‘Attention – falling objects’.
Figure 5. A typical street in the heart of the city that illustrates the phases of the reconstruction.
Figure 6. Via Gaglioffi. Encountering closed streets is an integral part of everyday life in the city.
Chapter 10 – Overtourism as a Worrying Tide: A Rhythmanalytic Experiment on Venetian Everyday Life
Figure 1. The main characters of the web series Rugagiuffa.
Figure 2. The Calle Rugagiuffa in Venice.
Figure 3. A Venetian landlady: Pala’s Aunt.
Figure 4. The last good work in Venice: Mala and the shoddy goods made in PRC.
Chapter 12 – Rhythmanalysis, Concrete Abstraction and the Quantified Self: Sonification and Performance Research as Remediation of Data
Figure 1. Max MSP.
Figure 2. Ableton.
Figure 3. Performance visual example A.
Figure 4. Performance visual example B.
Chapter 13 – Fête or Pseudo-Fête? A Time-lapse Rhythmanalysis of Outdoor Arts in the United Kingdom
Figure 1. Halifax performances, Sunday 14:25.
Figure 2. Halifax circulation rhythms, Sunday 14:35.
Figure 3. Halifax dispersal rhythms, Sunday 14:55.
Figure 4. Halifax sampling rhythms, Sunday 14:45.
Figure 5. Halifax, show 5 leavers.
Figure 6. Halifax, show 5 joiners.
Figure 7. GDIF, lawn of ORNC: Audience ‘swarm’.
Figure 8. GDIF, Motosikai audience gathering 16:35.
Figure 9. GDIF, Motosikai audience gathering 16:42.
Chapter 14 – Counterpoint Dancing: Towards a Rhythmanalysis of Interculturalism
Figure 1. A Plug in beats poster showing people with different origins, styles and sexualities.
Figure 2. Thomas managing phones at the DJ Booth.
Figure 3. An English language poster of Feierwerk’s system of values.
Figure 4. The dance party underway.

About the Editor

Dawn Lyon is a Reader in Sociology in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent, UK. Her research interests are in the sociology of work and time. She is the author of What is Rhythmanalysis? (Bloomsbury, 2019).

About the Contributors

Donald N. Anderson is an urban anthropologist and recovering cabdriver who studies labour, technology and urban space. He currently teaches social science and art history at the Southwest University of Visual Arts in Tucson, Arizona, USA.

Guido Borelli is an Associate Professor of Urban Sociology at the Iuav University of Venice. His research interests are in Marxist critique of urbanisation processes. In addition to several articles on Lefebvre, he edited the Italian translation (2020) of Éléments de rhythmanalyse (2020) and with Maurizio Busacca, The Dark Sides of Social Innovation (2020).

Yas Clarke is a sound artist and musician interested in the intersection between human and natural processes through the use of musically generative algorithms.

Tim Edensor is a Professor of Social and Cultural Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University. Amongst recent work, he is the author of From Light to Dark: Daylight, Illumination and Gloom (2017) and Stone: Stories of Urban Materiality (2020) and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Place (2020), Rethinking Darkness: Cultures, Histories, Practices (2020) and Weather: Spaces, Mobilities and Affects (2020).

Eirini Glynou-Lefaki is a PhD candidate in Urban Studies and Regional Science at the Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy. Her research centres around the lived experience of post-disaster cities focussing on the Italian city of L’Aquila and its recovery from an earthquake, using mobile methods and walking interviews.

Eleanor Jean is a live artist interested in destabilising perceptions of office work by drawing attention to the embodied and emotional aspects hidden beneath discourses of productivity.

Marina Karides is a Professor in Geography and Environment at the University of Hawai'i, Mānoa, Hawaiʻi. Her research interests include island studies, feminisms and alternative economics. She is the author of Sappho's Legacy: Convivial Economics on a Greek Isle (SUNY Press, 2021).

Salomé Lopes Coelho holds a PhD in Artistic Studies – Art and Mediations from New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her research interests are in aesthetics and politics of rhythm. She is a researcher at the National University of Arts, Argentina, where she lectures in Rhythm and Art.

James Macpherson lectures in Drama and Performance at several UK institutions, combining his teaching with a 30-year professional career in the performing arts. He was awarded a PhD in 2021 in which he used rhythmanalysis to study outdoor arts as a form of spatial intervention.

Louise Nash is a Lecturer in Organisation Studies at Essex Business School, University of Essex, UK. Her research interests are in the spatial and temporal rhythms of everyday working life and in exploring and developing sensory and embodied methods of research.

Frederick Harry Pitts is a Lecturer in Work, Employment, Organisation and Public Policy at University of Bristol School of Management. His research interests in the politics of work and value are played out in two recent books A World Beyond Work? (Emerald, 2021, with Ana Dinerstein) and Value (Polity, 2020).

Amy Sackville is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Kent, UK. She specialises in fiction and creative prose and is the author of the novels Painter to the King (Granta, 2018), Orkney (Granta, 2013) and The Still Point (Portobello, 2010).

Katherine Stansfeld is an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Geography at Queen Mary University of London, UK. Her work takes a creative and critical ethnographic approach to investigate urban public space, everyday geographies and cultural co-existence in superdiverse, translocal neighbourhoods.

Jessie Lauren Stein is a PhD student at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, USA. Her research interests are in geographies of belonging and migration.

Jani Tartia has a doctoral degree in architecture and urban planning from Tampere University, Finland. His research interests include temporality in urban planning and design, urban mobilities and formal and informal place-making processes.

Gordon Walker is a Professor at the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK. He researches environmental, energy and climate justice, the dynamics of energy demand and climate change impacts. His recent work on multidisciplinary approaches to rhythmanalysis includes Energy and Rhythm: Rhythmanalysis for a Low Carbon Future (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021) and website: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/energyandrhythm/.

Acknowledgements

Series editor, Ray Hutchison, who initiated this project, has been a collaborator throughout the preparation of the edited collection. We worked together on the call for chapters and the selection and revision of contributions, choices which created the final shape of the book. Thank you Ray.

It's been so interesting to watch the chapters come together over the last 18 months. Thank you to all the authors whose fascinating contributions appear in this volume for their patience and willingness to engage in discussion of their work – and to those who proposed chapters we were unfortunately not able to include. I am also grateful to the flexibility and understanding of colleagues at Emerald who have supported the completion of this project in the challenging circumstances of the coronavirus pandemic.

Thank you to all the friends and colleagues who have helped me pull this book together, especially Beckie Coleman, Ellie Jupp and Carolyn Pedwell for offering comments, reactions and encouragement. I am particularly grateful to Phil Hubbard who got me started on this whole rhythmanalytical journey and has been very generous with his knowledge and ideas along the way. And I want to say a huge thank you to my partner, Steve Grix, for his care and consideration (and a continuous supply of banana cake) as the rhythms of his life have been affected by the progress of this work.

Finally, I hope that readers enjoy this lively exploration of rhythm and find within it some novel ways of grasping everyday urban life.

Dawn Lyon

30 April 2021.

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