Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression, 3rd edition with a new introduction...

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Steven Feld

Sound and Sentiment

Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression, 3rd edition with a new introduction...

Steven Feld

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Duke University Press
02 October 2012

Folk & traditional music; Social & cultural history; Sociology: customs & traditions; Social & cultural anthropology; Mathematics & Sciences

This thirtieth anniversary edition of Sound and Sentiment makes Steven Feld's landmark, field-defining book available to a new generation of scholars and students. A sensory ethnography set in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, among the Kaluli people of Bosavi, Sound and Sentiment introduced the anthropology of sound, or the cultural study of sound. After it was first published in 1982, a second edition, incorporating additional field research and a new postscript, was released in 1990. The third edition includes all of the material from the first two editions, along with a substantial new introduction in which Feld discusses Bosavi's recent history and reflects on the challenges it poses for contemporary theory and representation.

By: Steven Feld
Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Third Edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9780822353652
ISBN 10: 0822353652
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 02 October 2012
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction to the Third Edition xiii Introduction to the Second Edition xxxix Introduction to the First Edition 3 1. The Boy Who Became a Muni Bird 20 2. To You They Are Birds, to Me They Are Voices in the Forest 44 3. Weeping That Moves Women to Song 86 4. The Poetics of Loss and Abandonment 130 5. Song That Moves Men to Tears 163 6. In the Form of a Bird: Kaluli Aesthetics 217 Postscript, 1989 239 Appendix: Kaluli Folk Ornithology 269 Glossary of Kaluli Terms 279 References 284 Discography 292 Index 293 Additional Resources 299

Steven Feld is a musician, filmmaker, and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Music at the University of New Mexico. His books include Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana, also published by Duke University Press. He is a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Reviews for Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression, 3rd edition with a new introduction by the author

This anniversary edition of Sound and Sentiment includes a profound new introduction by Feld... Sound and Sentiment was the seminal book on which the contemporary sound anthropology was founded in the 1970s. -- Meri Kyto Popular Music Sound and Sentiment is one of the greatest ethnographies ever written. Few books create new fields of inquiry; this work inaugurated the anthropology of the senses and played a crucial role in creating the anthropology of affect. -Charles L. Briggs, author of Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare One of the first books to successfully integrate ethnographic, musical, and linguistic analysis, Sound and Sentiment remains a model for such integration. In addition, it undergirds acoustemology, or the anthropology of sound, a scholarly tack that is accelerating, with no ritardando in sight. -Bonnie C. Wade, author of Thinking Musically: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture Written on the cusp of a shift in anthropology away from the influences of Claude Levi-Strauss, Clifford Geertz, and Victor Turner, Sound and Sentiment does double duty in the classroom: it represents crucial changes in the discipline of the early 1980s, while continuing to animate debates about sound, listening, and aesthetics across cultural and linguistic anthropology, ethnomusicology, performance studies, media studies, history, and folklore. -Louise Meintjes, author of Sound of Africa! Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio