Sound and Sentiment
Birds, Weeping, Poetics and Song in Kaluli Expression
2nd Edition
Published on 29. January 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-0-8122-1299-0 (ISBN)
Description
Now in its second edition, Sound and Sentiment is an ethnographic study of sound as a cultural system--that is, a system of symbols--among the Kaluli people of Papua New Guinea. It shows how an analysis of modes and codes of sound communication leads to an understanding of life in Kaluli society. By studying the form and performance of weeping, poetics, and song in relation to the Kaluli natural and spiritual world, Steven Feld reveals Kaluli sound expressions as embodiments of deeply felt sentiments.For this second edition the author has updated his original work with a new, innovative chapter that includes an interpretive review by its subjects, the Kaluli people themselves. He has also written a new preface and discography and revised the references section.
Reviews / Votes
"A major theoretical contribution to ethnomusicology... Steven Feld has accomplished what is all too rare yet fundamentally needed, ... a compelling account of how music and culture are inextricably wedded."--Ethnomusicology "A milestone in ethnomusicology that has implications for research on all types of music."--Popular Music "An undisputable success and a masterpiece... Feld's 'ethnography of sound' is a major contribution to our understanding."--Language in Society "This original, insightful, informative, and intellectually exciting book deserves a wide audience."--Anthropological Linguistics "A landmark in first presenting in detail the idea of an ethnography of sound."--American Ethnologist "This work is a unique, moving, valuable synthesis... Readable, original, complete."--ChoiceMore details
Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
29 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
467 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8122-1299-0 (9780812212990)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Steven Feld, a MacArthur Fellowship recpient, is Professor of Anthropology and Music at the University of New Mexico. He is coauthor, with Charles Keil, of Music Grooves: Essays and Dialogues and, with Bambi B. Schieffelin, of Bosavi-English-Tok Pisin Dictionary. With Keith H. Basso he coedited Senses of Place.
Content
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPreface to the Second EditionIntroduction1. The Boy Who Became a Muni Bird2. To You They Are Birds, to Me They Are Voices in the Forest3. Weeping That Moves Women to Song4. The Poetics of Loss and Abandonment5. Song That Moves Men to Tears6. In the Form of a Bird: Kaluli AestheticsPostscript, 1989Appendix. Kaluli Folk OrnithologyGlossary of Kaluli TermsReferencesDiscographyIndex