The Sound Studies Reader blends recent work that self-consciously describes itself as
'sound studies' along with earlier and lesser-known scholarship on sound from across the …

In Doing Sensory Ethnography I outline a way of thinking about and doing ethnography that
takes as its starting point the multisensoriality of experience, perception, knowing and …

Winner of the 2017 Edward Fry Book Award from the Literacy Research Association.
Literacy Theories for the Digital Age insightfully brings together six essential approaches to …

Boosting the bass guitar, blending the vocals, overdubbing percussion while fretting over
shoot-outs in the street. Grumbling about a producer, teasing a white engineer, challenging …

A comprehensive review of the ethnographic process for developing a project, implementing
the plan, and completing and preserving the data collected. In Handbook for Folklore and …

Fado, Portugal's most celebrated genre of popular music, can be heard in Lisbon clubs,
concert halls, tourist sites, and neighborhood bars. Fado sounds traverse the globe, on …

Folklore: The Basics is an engaging guide to the practice and interpretation of folklore.
Taking examples from around the world, it explores the role of folklore in expressing …

I'd come whizzing into the city center on my bicycle. Past the taxi rank where vendors sell
oranges, Lux soap, cassettes, and haircuts; past the dilapidated Georgeson Mansions …

The voice as timbral entity has proved especially resistant to analysis. Focusing on the voice
of black South African choralism, this essay attempts to do two things: provide an account of …

Recent research in ethnomusicology and popular music has drawn attention to the close
relationships between music, place, and identity. at “music and place” has become an …