In this remarkable book, Steven Feld, pioneer of the anthropology of sound, listens to the vernacular cosmopolitanism of jazz players in Ghana. Some have travelled widely, played with American jazz greats, and blended Coltrane with local instruments and worldviews. Combining memoir, biography, ethno[...]
This thirtieth anniversary edition of "Sound and Sentiment" makes Steven Feld's landmark, field-defining book available to a new generation of scholars and students. A sensory ethnography set in the rainforest of Papua New Guinea, among the Kaluli people of Bosavi, "Sound and Sentiment" introduced t[...]