The Interaction Order and Musical Sound
Shopping with Erving Goffman
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2291853 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael James Walsh (0000-0003-1919-8312, University of Canberra, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 46-66 |
| Publication date | 2019-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0245 • E-ISSN: 1475-682X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/soin.12232 |
| OpenAlex | W2806943973 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 36 |
Drawing on qualitative interviews and extending insights provided by Erving Goffman (1983, 1971), this article argues that music plays a crucial role in the interaction order of retail environments. I suggest music permeates these locations of consumption; shoppers are presented as perceiving musical sounds as both 'territorial offenses' and sounds that can also represent an 'intimate ally.' Crucial here is the nature of territoriality that manages an individual's exposure through the symbolic and literal placement of boundaries around the self, covering and protecting the self while navigating public space, tacitly securing rights in relation to others, and minimizing encroachments upon the 'territories of the self.' I contend that when shopping, participants can feel 'at home' in these locations thanks in part to the role of music but also in other cases actively avoid these situations, using privatizing music as a means of regaining auditory discretion. The contribution of this article extends Goffman's formulation of the interaction order, accounting for the dual role that music represents, as both a territorial offense and an intimate ally for shoppers
Aesthetics · Art · Discretion · Linguistics · Musical · Order (exchange · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Social science · Sociology · Symbolic interactionism · Territoriality · The Symbolic · Visual arts · Music History and Culture · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Communication · Law · Social Psychology
Introduction – music, sound and space
After Adorno
Erving Goffman
Music in Everyday Life
Erving Goffman
Frame analysis
The fine line
Relations in Public. Microstudies of the Public Order
Behavior in Public Places
The Managed Heart
VI. The Role of Music in Intimate Culture
Not Quite Bleeding from the Ears
An Interview With Erving Goffman, 1980
Interaction Ritual Chains
To soothe or remove? Affect, revanchism and the weaponized use of classical music
The Interaction Order
Music as a technology of the self
Georg Simmel and Erving Goffman
When You're Trying Something on You Picture Yourself in a Place Where They are Playing This Kind of Music' - Musically Sponsored Agency in the British Clothing Retail Sector
Simmel on culture
The Influence of Background Music on the Behavior of Restaurant Patrons
Sounds like the Mall of America
The Passing of Intellectual Generations
Music to Remember Me By
Symbolic Interaction as Music
Introduction
Hiding in Pornographic Bookstores
Music Lovers
Erving Goffman's Sociological Legacies
Sociology and the Prosaic
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |