Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction: An Ethnographic Curtain Raiser
An Emotional Problem
The Embodiment of Police Conduct: Beyond Interactionism
Chapter One: Complex and Nuanced Conceptions of Emotion, Music and Fieldwork
Tangled Threads: Emotion, Music, Power
A Phenomenology of Emotions: Embodied and Musico-Sensual Dimensions
Power: The Emotion Police
Ethnographic Engagements
Chapter Two: Embodied Disconnection: Police, Emotion and the Social Body
Embodied Sociality and Emotion
Emotional Expressions that are not Emotional: The Ethnographic Difference Between Thinking and Feeling
The Artificiality of the Thin Blue Line
Erasing Evidences of Emotion from the Police Body
Achieving Embodied Disconnectedness via (non visual) Surveillance
Chapter Three The Recipe for Sad
Recipe
An Invitation to the Present Body
Synaesthetic Surveillance and the Pain of Separation
Synaesthetic Surveillance: Hearing Undeaf to Itself
The Tiny of the Titanic
Listening Audiences, Instrumentalized Players
The Recipe for Sad and the Buzz of the Sad Performance
Chapter Four Becoming an Instrumentalized Person
Some Orienting Notes
Performance Experience
Hearing
Touch
Sight
Taste and Smell
Becoming a Band
Chapter Five: Law Enforcement Officers Will Now Sing ‘My Heart Will Go On’ (Or Metonyms and Contradictions)
Emotion—Not Meta-Emotion
Power-Laden ‘Material Memories’
Three Kinds of Materiality: Police Bodies, Instrument Bodies, Sounds and Musical Genre
Police Bodies as Material Memories
Musical Material Memories: Sonic and Visual
Seeming Contradictions
Chapter Six: The Final Curtain
Bibliography
Index
