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Disruptive Ambient Music: Mobile Phone Music Listening as Portable Urbanism Lasen Díaz, María Amparo This article explores the use of mobile phones as portable remediated sound devices for mobile listening — from boom boxes to personal stereos and mp3 players. This mode of engaging the city through music playing and listening reveals a particular urban strategy and acoustic urban politics. It increases the sonic presence of mobile owners and plays a role in territorialisation dynamics, as well as in eliciting territorial controversies in public. These digital practices play a key role in the enactment of the urban mood and ambience, as well as in the modulation of people’s presence — producing forms of what Spanish architect Roberto González calls portable urbanism: an entanglement of the digital, the urban and the online that activates a map of a reality over the fabric of the city, apparently not so present, visible and audible 2023-06-17T21:48:23Z 2023-06-17T21:48:23Z 2023-06-17T21:48:23Z 2018 journal article https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/17564 13675494 spa IMPE (CSO2012-37027) open access Sage