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dc.contributor.authorFerrarini, Lorenzo
dc.contributor.authorScaldaferri, Nicola
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-12T11:43:47Z
dc.date.available2021-02-12T11:43:47Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifierONIX_20210212_9781526151988_5
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46718
dc.description.abstractSonic 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVL Music: styles and genres::AVLT Traditional and folk musicen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::6 Style qualifiers::6F Styles (F)::6FD Folk, Folkloric stylesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DS Southern Europe::1DST Italyen_US
dc.subject.otherBasilicata
dc.subject.othersonic ethnography
dc.subject.otherheritagisation
dc.subject.othercultural performances
dc.subject.otherphoto-ethnography
dc.subject.otheracoustic communities
dc.subject.othersoundscapes
dc.subject.othersound
dc.subject.otherfestivals
dc.subject.othersouthern Italy
dc.titleSonic ethnography
dc.title.alternativeIdentity, heritage and creative research practice in Basilicata, southern Italy
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy6110b9b4-ba84-42ad-a0d8-f8d877957cdd
oapen.pages240
oapen.place.publicationManchester


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