Watch these video lectures
Tutorial complete by 20 September
- Basics of Sounds
Rosanne van den Berg - Introduction of Sound Equipment ➙ (.pdf)
Metje Postma - Editing (With) Sound
Andrew Littlejohn
Seminar complete by 27 September
- Sonic Possible Ethnographies
Andrew Littlejohn - Audio-Vision
Andrew Littlejohn
Read these texts
| MSc Required Texts complete by 27 September | |
|---|---|
| Gupta, A. and J. Ferguson | |
| 2012 | Chapter 24 – Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference’. In Robben and Sluka (eds.), Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader, 2 edition. Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA. Pp. 374-386. |
| Barbash, Ilisa and Lucien Taylor | |
| 1997 | Chapter 4: Sound. In Cross-Cultural Filmmaking: A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos. University of California Press, Berkeley. Pp. 171-181, 194-212. Link ➙ (.pdf) |
| 2012 | Statement on Ethics. American Anthropological Association. Link ➙ |
| We recommend that you read these texts, too | |
| Marion, J.S. and J.W. Crowder | |
| 2013 | Visual Ethics. In Visual Research: A Concise Introduction to Thinking Visually. Bloomsbury Academic, London, New Delhi, New York, Sydney. Link ➙ (.pdf) |
| VE Tutorial Texts complete by 20 September | |
| Feld, Steven and Donald Brenneis | |
| 2004 | Doing anthropology in sound. American Ethnologist 31, 461–474. Link ➙ |
| Feld, Steven | |
| 1994 | From Ethnomusicology to Echo-Muse-Ecology: Reading R. Murray Schafer in the Papua New Guinea Rainforest. Acoustic Ecology. Link ➙ |
| Pisaro, Michael | |
| 2010 | Ten Framing Considerations for the Field. Link ➙ (.pdf) |
| VE Seminar Texts complete by 27 September | |
| Henley, Paul | |
| 2007 | Seeing, Hearing, Feeling: Sound and the Despotism of the Eye in “Visual” Anthropology. Visual Anthropology Review 23, 54–63. Link ➙ |
| Chion, Michel | |
| 1994 | Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen. New York: Columbia University Press. Chapter One. Link ➙ |
| Rennie, Tullis | |
| 2014 | Socio-Sonic: An Ethnographic Methodology for Electroacoustic Composition. Organised Sound 19, 117–24. Link ➙ |
Listen to these tracks
complete by 27 September
Required Listening (Available online. Use good headphones or speakers!)
Yannick Dauby
Taî-pak thiaⁿ saⁿ piàn, Track 2 Taipei, 2030.
20:30 minutes
Stephanie Spray
Blue Sky, White River.
32:55 minutes
Peter Cusack
Favorite Beijing Sounds. Track 11 and at least two other tracks whose titles interest you.
Approx. 10 minutes total
In class you will listen to Ernst Karel’s “Chidambaram, Early”. But please read accompanying text before class.
