%0 Journal Article
%T Disruptive ambient music: Mobile phone music listening as portable urbanism
%A Amparo Lasen
%J European Journal of Cultural Studies
%@ 1460-3551
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1367549417705607
%X This article explores the use of mobile phones as portable remediated sound devices for mobile listening ¨C from boom boxes to personal stereos and mp3 players. This way of engaging the city through music playing and listening reveals a particular urban strategy and acoustic urban politics. It increases the sonic presence of mobile owners and plays a role in territorialisation dynamics, as well as in eliciting territorial conflicts in public. These digital practices play a key role in the enactment of the urban mood and ambience, as well as in the modulation of people¡¯s presence ¨C producing forms of what Spanish architect Roberto Gonz¨¢lez calls portable urbanism: an entanglement of the digital, the urban and the online that activates a map of a reality over the fabric of the city, apparently not so present, visible or audible
%K Mobile listening
%K mobile phones
%K portable urbanism
%K sonic presence
%K territoriality
%K urban acoustic spaces
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1367549417705607