Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression by Steven Feld

Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression

Steven Feld

316 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction music challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 le...

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