ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how might a place be rendered in sound, in music? How might the very place-ness of the place be evoked? and how might music participate in the formation of place? The term social imaginary is utilized to describe those places simply because few, if any, of the Sydney boys who spent time had actually been to the United States. The contrast to the flatlands of outer suburban Sydney is more or less absolute, and not only in geo-physical terms: the emptiness of the western suburbs was – is – experienced as an absence of culture. There's no there there. Among the practices associated with hip hop are breakdancing, as well as a range of conventionalized and often fluid bodily practices, or what Bourdieu called habitus, constituting an orthodoxy of hip hop embodiment.
