Status : Verified
| Personal Name | Meamo, Benjamin George III P. |
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| Resource Title | Assemblages of sound: soundscape, sound cultures, and sound media representations of Session Road at night |
| Date Issued | 30 January 2026 |
| Abstract | In 2018, Baguio City’s local government unit (LGU) approved the Silent Night city ordinance which monitors and penalizes loud sounds and excessive noise from audio speakers, devices, and activities around the city especially in residential neighborhoods and even along the famous Session Road. Taking off from this premise, the study listened in/to Session Road and defined its social production as space (Lefebvre, 1974; 1991) through sound. Using Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s theory of assemblage and the concepts of folding, desire, striated space, and smooth space (1987; 1993), the study listened in/to Session Road as space in order to organize, interpret, analyze, and discuss the assemblages co-produced in the soundscape, sound cultures, and sound media representations of the famous road. The study discusses how the assemblages of sound define Session Road as a shared public space, an urban space, an economic space, a transitional space, and a space for performance and the performers. All of which reveal notions of power and how power relations are practiced, experienced, and negotiated in Session Road as space at night vis-à-vis the city ordinance. The study argues that the assemblages of sound are co-produced among silence, human and non-human sources of sound, reinforced sound media representations, sonic transgressions, and fantasies of Baguio as a romantic city, colonial hill station, and tourist destination. Moreover, the sound assemblages co-exist in accord with the desires, needs, and demands of urbanization, gentrification, tourism, and modernization as dominant modes of production in the city. |
| Degree Course | Master of Arts in Media Studies (Broadcast) |
| Language | English |
| Keyword | Baguio City; Soundscape; Sound Cultures; Sound Media; Silent Night Ordinance; Sound; Space |
| Material Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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