Sound, Order and Survival in Prison: The Rhythms and Routines of HMP Midtown

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Sound, Order and Survival in Prison: The Rhythms and Routines of HMP Midtown
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Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Just Landed
	Why sound?
	Stethoscope-ing (auscultation)
	Welcome to “chaos”
	Orientation
2 What Are You Hearing Right Now?
	Relegating the interview
	Acclimating and positioning
	Listening for power
	What are you listening to?
3 Warp and Weft
	Beyond the walls
	Certain songs
	“The best sound you’re gonna hear”
	Absence
4 “He’s Never Even Had a Magnum!”
	“Pretending to press the brakes”
	From temporal vertigo to temporal dissonance
	Leaving it behind
5 Weft and Warp
	Emotional geography
	Feeling the range
	Sanctuary
6 A Night Inside
	Night falls
	In the dark
	Brian
7 Talk to Me
	“I can’t”
	Intimacy and ethics
	Locked in
8 Kackerlackas
	Geographies of emotion and exclusion
	“Going for a shit, Sir?”
	Stain and stigma
9 A Kettle, a Penguin and a Word Arrow
	A kettle
	A Penguin
	A word arrow
	Breaking silence
	Taking it, and giving it back
10 Emotional Contagion
	Trouble rumbling
	“Burn is your currency”
	‘Bubbly’
	Earworms
	‘Mood hoovers’
11 Arrhythmia
	Rhythms of violence
	On the netting
	Cell fire
12 Polyrhythmia
	A ‘good’ day
	The regime
	‘Feeding time’
13 Jingle Jangle
	Keys
	Brut and Old Spice
	“I hear a lot of things, me”
14 Disentangling Power and Order
	Bottom up
	Conducting the noise
	Listening to legitimacy
	Listening to order
15 Learning the ‘Everyday Tune’
	“The noise of the place”
	Orderly disorder
	Rituals and routines
16 Listening to Power
	Every contact matters
	Banging
		Rapid, rhythmic: Bangbangbang
		Slow, rhythmic: Bang. Bang. Bang.
		Arrhythmic: Bangbang … bang. Bang … bang
		Rapid: moving location around the wing
	Power, the institution
17 Singing Frogs, Looping the Slam
	Looping
	“Now I think he’s alright”
	Damage
18 ‘The Auld Triangle’
	Triangles and bells
	“The biggest house in Midtown”
	Prison, sound and the cultural imagination
19 The Hustle and Bustle
	“You’ve got to keep busy, else your head will pop”
	Camouflage
	Metronome and machine
20 Phasing
	Going right back into it
	Phasing emotion
	“It keeps us all going”
21 Polyrhythmia Revisited
	Humming along to the everyday tune
	Rhythms and routines
	Strangeways and the false dichotomy
22 Bells, Whistles, Ships and Prisons
	Listening
	Time and space
	Representations
	Rip tide
	Coda
23 Shipping Out
	Leaving, on a jet plane
	Catalyst and comparison
	Inside/outside
Notes
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
	Chapter 8
	Chapter 9
	Chapter 10
	Chapter 11
	Chapter 13
	Chapter 16
	Chapter 17
	Chapter 18
	Chapter 19
	Chapter 20
	Chapter 21
	Chapter 22
	Chapter 23
References
Index