Sonic ethnography
Sonic ethnography explores the role of sound-making and listening practices in the formation of local identities in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. The book uses a combination of text, photography and sound recording to investigate soundful cultural performances such as tree rituals, carn...
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| author | Ferrarini, Lorenzo Scaldaferri, Nicola |
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| description | Sonic ethnography explores the role of sound-making and listening practices in the formation of local identities in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. The book uses a combination of text, photography and sound recording to investigate soundful cultural performances such as tree rituals, carnivals, pilgrimages, events promoting cultural heritage and more informal musical performances. Its approach demonstrates how in the acoustic domain tradition is made and disrupted, power struggles take place and acoustic communities are momentarily brought together in shared temporality and space. This book underlines how an attention to sound-making, recording and listening practices can bring innovative contributions to the ethnography of an area that has been studied by Italian and foreign scholars since the 1950s. The approaches of the classic anthropological scholarship on the region have become one of the forces at play in a complex field where discourses on a traditional past, politics of heritage and transnational diasporic communities interact. The book’s argument is carried forward not just by textual means, but also through the inclusion of six ‘sound-chapters’, that is, compositions of sound recordings themed so as to interact with the topic of the corresponding textual chapter, and through a large number of colour photographs. Two methodological chapters, respectively about doing research in sound and on photo-ethnography, explain the authors’ approach to field research and to the making of the book. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-637332025-03-23T08:55:12Z Sonic ethnography Ferrarini, Lorenzo Scaldaferri, Nicola Basilicata sonic ethnography heritagisation cultural performances photo-ethnography acoustic communities soundscapes sound festivals southern Italy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVL Music: styles and genres::AVLT Traditional and folk music thema EDItEUR::6 Style qualifiers::6F Styles (F)::6FD Folk, Folkloric styles thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DS Southern Europe::1DST Italy Sonic ethnography explores the role of sound-making and listening practices in the formation of local identities in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. The book uses a combination of text, photography and sound recording to investigate soundful cultural performances such as tree rituals, carnivals, pilgrimages, events promoting cultural heritage and more informal musical performances. Its approach demonstrates how in the acoustic domain tradition is made and disrupted, power struggles take place and acoustic communities are momentarily brought together in shared temporality and space. This book underlines how an attention to sound-making, recording and listening practices can bring innovative contributions to the ethnography of an area that has been studied by Italian and foreign scholars since the 1950s. The approaches of the classic anthropological scholarship on the region have become one of the forces at play in a complex field where discourses on a traditional past, politics of heritage and transnational diasporic communities interact. The book’s argument is carried forward not just by textual means, but also through the inclusion of six ‘sound-chapters’, that is, compositions of sound recordings themed so as to interact with the topic of the corresponding textual chapter, and through a large number of colour photographs. Two methodological chapters, respectively about doing research in sound and on photo-ethnography, explain the authors’ approach to field research and to the making of the book. 2021-02-17T08:53:28Z 2021-02-17T08:53:28Z 2021-02-12T11:43:47Z 2020 book ONIX_20210212_9781526151988_5 OCN: 1253990546 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46718 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/63733 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46718/1/9781526151988_fullhl.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46718/1/9781526151988_fullhl.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46718/1/9781526151988_fullhl.pdf Manchester University Press bcb4ab08-c525-4e6c-88e5-a0cf0a175533 240 Manchester open access |
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