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.
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"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."--Choice
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Once there was a boy and his older sister; they called each other ade. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ane mama, halaido domeki, bird sound words, muni bird story, gisalo song, funerary weeping, melodic weeping, bush pandanus, one feel sorrow, ade relationship, folk ornithology, sung weeping, descending intonation, bol tree, song terminology, dialogic editing, waterfall ledge, longhouse site, poetic grammar, longhouse community, song poetics, aesthetic tension, spirit reflections, tonal center, call symbol Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Brown Oriole, New Guinea Friarbird, Raggiana Bird of Paradise, Hooded Butcherbird, Papuan Hornbill, Beautiful Fruitdove, Kapul Eagle, Pesquet's Parrot, Port Moresby, Superb Bird of Paradise New!
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ane mama, halaido domeki, bird sound words, muni bird story, gisalo song, funerary weeping, melodic weeping, bush pandanus, one feel sorrow, ade relationship, folk ornithology, sung weeping, descending intonation, bol tree, song terminology, dialogic editing, waterfall ledge, longhouse site, poetic grammar, longhouse community, song poetics, aesthetic tension, spirit reflections, tonal center, call symbol Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Brown Oriole, New Guinea Friarbird, Raggiana Bird of Paradise, Hooded Butcherbird, Papuan Hornbill, Beautiful Fruitdove, Kapul Eagle, Pesquet's Parrot, Port Moresby, Superb Bird of Paradise New!
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- The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers by Edward L. Schieffelin in Front Matter, page 27, and page 29
- New Guinea (World's Wild Places) by Roy D. Mackay in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular (Conduct and Communication) by William Labov in Back Matter
- Social Life of Language by Gillian Sankoff in Back Matter
- Cultural Anthropology: A Contemporary Perspective (Third Edition) by Roger M.(Roger M. Keesing) Keesing in Back Matter
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- Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music (Music Culture) by Robert Walser in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Balinese Discourses on Music and Modernization: Village Voices and Urban Views (Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertations) by Brita Renee Heimarck in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons by Katherine Bergeron on page 135, and page 154
- Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) by Bruno Nettl on page 327, and page 354
- Songs and Gifts at the Frontier (Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertations) by Jose S. Buenconsejo in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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