Sound and Sentiment

Steven Feld is a musician, filmmaker, and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Music at the University of New Mexico. His books include Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana, also published by Duke University Press. He is a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• List of Illustrations ixAcknowledgments xiIntroduction to the Third Edition xiiiIntroduction to the Second Edition xxxixIntroduction to the First Edition 31. The Boy Who Became a Muni Bird 202. To You They Are Birds, to Me They Are Voices in the Forest 443. Weeping That Moves Women to Song 864. The Poetics of Loss and Abandonment 1305. Song That Moves Men to Tears 1636. In the Form of a Bird: Kaluli Aesthetics 217Postscript, 1989 239Appendix: Kaluli Folk Ornithology 269Glossary of Kaluli Terms 279References 284Discography 292Index 293Additional Resources 299

"Sound and Sentiment is one of the greatest ethnographies ever written. Few books create new fields of inquiry; this work inaugurated the anthropology of the senses and played a crucial role in creating the anthropology of affect."-Charles L. Briggs, author of Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare "One of the first books to successfully integrate ethnographic, musical, and linguistic analysis, Sound and Sentiment remains a model for such integration. In addition, it undergirds acoustemology, or the anthropology of sound, a scholarly tack that is accelerating, with no ritardando in sight."-Bonnie C. Wade, author of Thinking Musically: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture "Written on the cusp of a shift in anthropology away from the influences of Claude LÉvi-Strauss, Clifford Geertz, and Victor Turner, Sound and Sentiment does double duty in the classroom: it represents crucial changes in the discipline of the early 1980s, while continuing to animate debates about sound, listening, and aesthetics across cultural and linguistic anthropology, ethnomusicology, performance studies, media studies, history, and folklore."-Louise Meintjes, author of Sound of Africa! Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio "This anniversary edition of Sound and Sentiment includes a profound new introduction by Feld. . . . Sound and Sentiment was the seminal book on which the contemporary sound anthropology was founded in the 1970s."  - Meri Kytö (Popular Music)