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Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression Second Edition
Author(s): Steven Feld (Author)
- Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
- Publication Date: January 29, 1990
- Edition: Second
- Language: English
- Print length: 312 pages
- ISBN-10: 0812212991
- ISBN-13: 9780812212990
Book Description
Winner of the 1991 J. I. Stanley Prize of the School of American Research
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“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 work is a unique, moving, valuable synthesis. . . . Readable, original, complete.”—Choice
“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 landmark in first presenting in detail the idea of an ethnography of sound.”—American Ethnologist
“This original, insightful, informative, and intellectually exciting book deserves a wide audience.”—Anthropological Linguistics
