
Sing Me Back Home
Ethnographic Songwriting and Sardinian Language Politics
Kristina Jacobsen(Author)
University of Toronto Press
Published on 24. September 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
290 pages
978-1-4875-5386-9 (ISBN)
Description
Set on the Italian island of Sardinia, Sing Me Back Home explores language and culture through songwriting as an ethnographic method. Based on thirteen months of ethnographic fieldwork writing songs with Sardinian musicians, artisans, shepherds, poets, and language activists, Kristina Jacobsen asks: How are Sardinian lives and language ideologies narrated against the backdrop of American music?
The book shows how Sardinian musicians sing their own history between the lines. It reveals how Sardinian songs become a site of transduction where, through the process of songwriting, recording, and performance, the energy from one genre of music and lingua-culture is harnessed to signal another one much closer to home.
Sing Me Back Home is accompanied by original songs written and recorded in the field, with links to songs in each chapter. It includes songwriting prompts and lyrics, a glossary of key terms, and photographs from the field. Drawing on work from critical collaborative research, auto-ethnography, public anthropology, arts-based research, and ethnographic poetry, this sensory ethnography offers new ways for us to hear culture through stories and songs.
The book shows how Sardinian musicians sing their own history between the lines. It reveals how Sardinian songs become a site of transduction where, through the process of songwriting, recording, and performance, the energy from one genre of music and lingua-culture is harnessed to signal another one much closer to home.
Sing Me Back Home is accompanied by original songs written and recorded in the field, with links to songs in each chapter. It includes songwriting prompts and lyrics, a glossary of key terms, and photographs from the field. Drawing on work from critical collaborative research, auto-ethnography, public anthropology, arts-based research, and ethnographic poetry, this sensory ethnography offers new ways for us to hear culture through stories and songs.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4875-5386-9 (9781487553869)
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Person
Kristina Jacobsen is an associate professor of ethnomusicology and anthropology at the University of New Mexico.
Content
Note: House on Swallow Street
Preface
1. Introduction
2. The Saddle of the Devils
Ponte / Bridge
3. Semus Torrande / We're Going Back
Ponte / Bridge
4. Sounding Grezzo
5. A Figment of the Past
6. We Are All Texinians Now
7. Conclusion
Appendix A: Cowriting Prompts
Appendix B: Song Lyrics
Glossary
Bibliography
Preface
1. Introduction
2. The Saddle of the Devils
Ponte / Bridge
3. Semus Torrande / We're Going Back
Ponte / Bridge
4. Sounding Grezzo
5. A Figment of the Past
6. We Are All Texinians Now
7. Conclusion
Appendix A: Cowriting Prompts
Appendix B: Song Lyrics
Glossary
Bibliography