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Listen to the band! How sound can realise group identity and enact intergroup domination

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posted on 2023-09-01, 13:58 authored by John Shayegh, John Drury, Clifford Stevenson
Recent research suggests that sound appraisal can be moderated by social identity. We validate this finding, and also extend it, by examining the extent to which sound can also be understood as instrumental in intergroup relations. We interviewed nine members of a Catholic enclave in predominantly Protestant East Belfast about their experiences of an outgroup (Orange Order) parade, where intrusive sound was a feature. Participants reported experiencing the sounds as a manifestation of the Orange Order identity and said that it made them feel threatened and anxious because they felt it was targeted at them by the outgroup (e.g., through aggressive volume increases). There was also evidence that the sounds produced community disempowerment, which interviewees explicitly linked to the invasiveness of the music. Some interviewees described organising to collectively ‘drown out’ the bands’ sounds, an activity which appeared to be uplifting. These findings develop the elaborated social identity model of empowerment, by showing that intergroup struggle and collective self-objectification can operate through sound as well as through physical actions.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

56

Issue number

1

Page range

181-196

Publication title

British Journal of Social Psychology

ISSN

2044-8309

Publisher

Wiley

File version

  • Other

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2016-11-01

Legacy creation date

2016-10-31

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Science & Technology (until September 2018)

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This is the peer reviewed version which has been published in final form at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12175. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley's terms and conditions for self-archiving.

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