Sonic ethnography : Identity, heritage and creative research practice in Basilicata, southern Italy / Lorenzo Ferrarini, Nicola Scaldaferri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferrarini, Lorenzo, Author.

Scaldaferri, Nicola, 1969- Author.

Series:

Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Italy, Southern.

Ethnology.

Ethnomusicology--Italy--Basilicata.

Ethnomusicology.

Music--Social aspects--Italy--Basilicata.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.) ill

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Sonic ethnography makes a compelling argument for taking sound seriously as a crucial component of social life and as an ethnographic form of representation. This volume explores the role of sound-making and listening practices in the formation of local identities in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. With an approach that cuts across sensory anthropology, sound studies and ethnomusicology, Sonic ethnography demonstrates how acoustic tradition is made and disrupted and acoustic communities are brought together in shared temporality and space. Based extensive research, this volume provides an innovative take on soundful cultural performances such as tree rituals, carnivals, pilgrimages and more informal musical performances, with particular attention to the interactions between classic ethnographic scholarship from the past century and the local politics of heritage.Featuring stunning colour photographs and more than an hour of sound recordings, Sonic ethnography uses a unique combination of media to investigate distinctive ways of knowing, beyond more traditional ethnographic forms of representation. Two methodological chapters, respectively on music-making as creative research practice and on photo-ethnography, make the book an essential contribution for those interested in the production of sounds and still images as relational and interactive approaches to fieldwork. The pioneering anthropologist of sound, Steven Feld, collaborated to some of the research and contributed to the book an afterword and a soundscape composition.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of audio tracks

Acknowledgements

Glossary of musical terms

Map

Introduction

1 When the trees resound

2 Soundmasks in resounding places

3 Sonic devotion and sonic control

4 Sounds and images of nostalgia

5 Voices across the ocean

6 Doing research in sound

7 Photographing as an anthropologist

Afterword

Listening guide

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-5261-5198-7

OCLC:

1253990546