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Ethno-Aesthetics of Surf in Florida

Surfing, Musicking, and Identity Marking

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Authors:
  1. Anne Barjolin-Smith

    1. Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France

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  • Combines representational and interactionist approaches to surfing and musicking to explain a number of varied yet intertwined phenomena, such as social and private identity marking, urban development, and cultural mobility
  • Explores surfing and musicking as a sociocultural construct and helps to highlight, analyze, and understand cultural hybridization through surfers’ collaborative efforts to promote social cohesion
  • Presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which musical experience pertaining to the surf lifestyle can be considered as an identity marker of various American surf subcultures
  • Redefines surf music as a glocal cultural construct, rather than a historically California-bound genre

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introducing Ethno-Aesthetics of Surfing

    • Anne Barjolin-Smith
    Pages 1-35

  3. Florida, Surfing, and Surf Music: Overview of the Place, the People, and the Practices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37
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    2. Florida: Society and Cultures

      • Anne Barjolin-Smith
      Pages 39-65

    3. Surfing Florida: History of an Underdog

      • Anne Barjolin-Smith
      Pages 67-104

    4. Specificities of Surf Music

      • Anne Barjolin-Smith
      Pages 105-128

  4. Effects of the Mobility of Surfing and Surf Music on Cultural Appropriation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
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    2. Model One: The Ultra-Marine Model of Cultural Hybridization

      • Anne Barjolin-Smith
      Pages 131-155

    3. Contextualizing Ethno-Aesthetic Mobilities: Toward Floridian Surfing and Surf Music

      • Anne Barjolin-Smith
      Pages 157-192

    4. Model Two: The Phases of Cultural Appropriation

      • Anne Barjolin-Smith
      Pages 193-219

  5. The Question of Identity in Ethno-Aesthetic Belonging

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      Pages 221-221
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    2. Thinking the Questions of Identity

      • Anne Barjolin-Smith
      Pages 223-253

    3. Musical Consumption and Postures Within Surfing Subcultures

      • Anne Barjolin-Smith
      Pages 255-293

    4. Ethno-Aesthetic Synthesis and Perspective

      • Anne Barjolin-Smith
      Pages 295-330

    5. Epilogue: The Ethno-Aesthetic Paradox: Freedom From and Freedom To

      • Anne Barjolin-Smith
      Pages 331-335

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 337-339
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About this book

Ethno-aesthetics of Surf in Florida discusses surf and music as glocal sociocultural constructs. Focusing on Florida's unexplored surfing culture, the book illustrates how musical experience begets representations about the world that highlight ways of acting and being of various sociocultural communities. Based on the conceptualization of ethno-aesthetics, this ethnographic study provides an analysis of the Space Coast surfers community's collaborative effort to build social cohesion through their musicking. This transdisciplinary research in American Studies draws upon various theoretical perspectives from both the humanities and social sciences, including ethnomusicology, social psychology, and sociolinguistics, to propose new ways of exploring the links between surfing and musicking. This monograph looks past the myth of iconic 1960s Californian surf music to show how, as a result of the glocalization of surfing, the musicking of Floridian surfers has allowed them to expresstheir subjectivities and to make sense of their world. This book contributes to the debate on the disputed notions of identity and representations by establishing connections between a local expression of the surf lifestyle and its music. It proposes theoretical models that explain cultural hybridization, appropriation, and belonging in surfing. It also develops concepts and notions, such as surfanization, surf strand, lifestyle crossover, and identity marking, to illustrate how global practices, such as surfing, are endowed with various modes of expression exemplified by the emergence of unique regional subcultures of surfing.

Authors and Affiliations

  • UniversitĂ© Paul-ValĂ©ry Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France

    Anne Barjolin-Smith

About the author

Anne Barjolin-Smith received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Paul Valery, Montpellier 3 University, France. She researches lifestyle sports as United States cultural, ideological, and aesthetic experiences. As a former snowboard instructor actively engaged in multiple lifestyle sports, she has traveled the world to explore diverse snowboarding and surfing regions.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ethno-Aesthetics of Surf in Florida

  • Book Subtitle: Surfing, Musicking, and Identity Marking

  • Authors: Anne Barjolin-Smith

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7478-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-7477-1Published: 22 September 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-7480-1Published: 23 September 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-7478-8Published: 21 September 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 339

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Human Geography, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Music

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