Ethno-Aesthetics of Surf in Florida : Surfing, Musicking, and Identity Marking

__Ethno-aesthetics of Surf in Florida__ discusses surf and music as glocal sociocultural constructs. Focusing on Florida's unexplored surfing culture, the book illustrates how musical experience begets representations about the world that highlight ways of acting and being of various sociocultural communities. Based on the conceptualization of ethno-aesthetics, this ethnographic study provides an analysis of the Space Coast surfers community's collaborative effort to build social cohesion through their musicking. This transdisciplinary research in American Studies draws upon various theoretical perspectives from both the humanities and social sciences, including ethnomusicology, social psychology, and sociolinguistics, to propose new ways of exploring the links between surfing and musicking. This monograph looks past the myth of iconic 1960s Californian surf music to show how, as a result of the glocalization of surfing, the musicking of Floridian surfers has allowed them to express their subjectivities and to make sense of their world. This book contributes to the debate on the disputed notions of identity and representations by establishing connections between a local expression of the surf lifestyle and its music. It proposes theoretical models that explain cultural hybridization, appropriation, and belonging in surfing. It also develops concepts and notions, such as surfanization, surf strand, lifestyle crossover, and identity marking, to illustrate how global practices, such as surfing, are endowed with various modes of expression exemplified by the emergence of unique regional subcultures of surfing. Ethno-aesthetics of Surf in Florida discusses surf and music as glocal sociocultural constructs. Focusing on Florida's unexplored surfing culture, the book illustrates how musical experience begets representations about the world that highlight ways of acting and being of various sociocultural communities. Based on the conceptualization of ethno-aesthetics, this ethnographic study provides an analysis of the Space Coast surfers community's collaborative effort to build social cohesion through their musicking. This transdisciplinary research in American Studies draws upon various theoretical perspectives from both the humanities and social sciences, including ethnomusicology, social psychology, and sociolinguistics, to propose new ways of exploring the links between surfing and musicking. This monograph looks past the myth of iconic 1960s Californian surf music to show how, as a result of the glocalization of surfing, the musicking of Floridian surfers has allowed them to express their subjectivities and to make sense of their world. This book contributes to the debate on the disputed notions of identity and representations by establishing connections between a local expression of the surf lifestyle and its music. It proposes theoretical models that explain cultural hybridization, appropriation, and belonging in surfing. It also develops concepts and notions, such as surfanization, surf strand, lifestyle crossover, and identity marking, to illustrate how global practices, such as surfing, are endowed with various modes of expression exemplified by the emergence of unique regional subcultures of surfing. Anne Barjolin-Smith received her Ph. D. in American Studies from Paul Valery, Montpellier 3 University, France. She researches lifestyle sports as United States cultural, ideological, and aesthetic experiences. As a former snowboard instructor actively engaged in multiple lifestyle sports, she has traveled the world to explore diverse snowboarding and surfing regions Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Introducing Ethno-Aesthetics of Surfing (Anne Barjolin-Smith)....Pages 1-35 Front Matter ....Pages 37-37 Florida: Society and Cultures (Anne Barjolin-Smith)....Pages 39-65 Surfing Florida: History of an Underdog (Anne Barjolin-Smith)....Pages 67-104 Specificities of Surf Music (Anne Barjolin-Smith)....Pages 105-128 Front Matter ....Pages 129-129 Model One: The Ultra-Marine Model of Cultural Hybridization (Anne Barjolin-Smith)....Pages 131-155 Contextualizing Ethno-Aesthetic Mobilities: Toward Floridian Surfing and Surf Music (Anne Barjolin-Smith)....Pages 157-192 Model Two: The Phases of Cultural Appropriation (Anne Barjolin-Smith)....Pages 193-219 Front Matter ....Pages 221-221 Thinking the Questions of Identity (Anne Barjolin-Smith)....Pages 223-253 Musical Consumption and Postures Within Surfing Subcultures (Anne Barjolin-Smith)....Pages 255-293 Ethno-Aesthetic Synthesis and Perspective (Anne Barjolin-Smith)....Pages 295-330 Epilogue: The Ethno-Aesthetic Paradox: Freedom From and Freedom To (Anne Barjolin-Smith)....Pages 331-335 Back Matter ....Pages 337-339