Sonic City - YouTube links March 19, 2021 09:51

Our new book, Sonic City: Making Rock Music and Urban Life in Singapore, is an ethnography of noise-making centered around a community of people who make rock music within the constraints of urban life in Singapore. When author Steve Ferzacca arrived in Singapore in 2011 to work as a researcher, he did not expect to get involved in the local music scene - but that is exactly what happened. 

Ferzacca refers to Sonic City as a "sonic ethnography", since sound, music genres, and music instruments tell stories as much as people do. So what better complement to the book than to see the noise-making in action? The author and his Singapore bandmates/ethnographic subjects can be seen in action on stage in Singapore and Vietnam at the following YouTube links:

https://youtu.be/H3gVR8P9zf0. Guitar 77: Steve and Kiang jam “‘Stormy Monday.”’ Film by Sun Jung (1/2012). Published February 27, 2012

https://youtu.be/BxMsUHmeJyE. Blues 77, “Shiok-Lah”, The Hood, May 26, 2012.

https://youtu.be/2uPqZm4-a0U). Blues 77, “Hendrixing”, Ho Chi Minh City, 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CiA4MdjtRU&list=UUDwKnqMO9YQT392GPwnxZCA. lo hei celebration: Peninsula Shopping Center Singapore.

https://youtu.be/O6dx02SPLhM. “Duke” with opening monologue. November 6, 2015.

https://youtu.be/HxkOF1pYsH4. “Can’t Complain” July 7, 2017.

https://youtu.be/YUJkq1nq5BA. Blues 77, “On the (Doghouse) Floor,” Red Noodle, Singapore, 2016.

https://youtu.be/QFGgPeLI1Cg. Blues 77, “Haiyan,” Red Noodle, Singapore, 2016.

https://youtu.be/AuJ7CZhuTX8. Blues 77, “I’m a Man,” Red Noodle, Singapore, 2016.

https://youtu.be/_nSjP15oQAE. Blues 77, “Hey Now,” Red Noodle, Singapore, 2016.

https://youtu.be/-e8LgJo57QY. Blues 77, “Yangon,” Red Noodle, Singapore, 2016.

https://youtu.be/_cH1pFEWcAg. Blues 77, “You Stay,” Red Noodle, Singapore, 2016.

https://youtu.be/NVa5AUERFjM. Blues 77, “Going Crazy,” Red Noodle, Singapore, 2016.