In Auditory Culture Reader, (eds) Bull, M. & Back. L., pp 451-480, Berg: London (2003)

Sound connects people; it draws us together.  This chapter suggests how it might be possible to understand some effects and affects of sound and the nature and qualities of the sonic.To do this I identify a particular phenomenon that I am calling Sonic Dominance. Football crowds, raves,  political demonstrations and certain religious rituals are other contexts that produce this phenomenon of sonic dominance. But my personal favourite site for the experience of sonic dominance is the Reggae sound system session. For me this is the epistemic example.   

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