Sonic branding and the aesthetic infrastructure of everyday consumption
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4873892 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susie Khami (0000-0002-6513-6844, University of Technology Sydney, corresponding author), Brent Keogh (0000-0002-1975-4924, University of Technology Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 281-296 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Popular Music (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0261143021000118 |
| OpenAlex | W3167150082 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 38 |
Sonic branding - the sonic expression of a brand's identity - is the audio equivalent of a brand's logo, a sound that is both distinct and adaptable to diverse contexts, and serves to communicate a brand's narrative. Sonic branding has been a feature of marketing strategies for the past two decades, but more recently there has been increased commercial interest in sonic branding, a move from the 'visual turn' to the 'sonic turn', as voice activation technologies such as Siri, Amazon's Alexa and Google Assistant immerse the consumer in a personal encounter across diverse sensory touch points. While there has been significant scholarly discussion in popular music studies of the ways that sound is employed to increase capital in commercial contexts, little has been written to address the ways in which popular music is courted and implicated in brand strategy specific to sonic branding. In this paper, we consider the ways in which sounds are embedded in contemporary brand practice and detail the ways in which popular musicians and genres are complicit partners in 'branding to the senses'. Here, we focus on two sonic branding case studies - Mastercard and HSBC - which highlight the key role of popular music in constructing the way we 'hear' brands
Advertising · Aesthetics · Art · Brand management · Business · Consumption (sociology · Corporate branding · Identity (music · Literature · Narrative · Popular music · Visual arts · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification · Diverse Musicological Studies · Music History and Culture
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |