"Doing Anthropology in Sound"
Steven Feld and Donald Brenneis
Special web supplement to:
American Ethnologist 31:4 - November 2004 Links to Sound Recordings, Web Resources, and Writings Discussed in the Article
Using these links you can listen to sample tracks from most of the field recordings and soundscape projects discussed in "Doing Anthropology in Sound." You can also learn more about these various projects, and order many of these recordings for yourself, as well as read writings by some of the recordists and scholars mentioned in "Doing Anthropology in Sound."
If you would like to submit corrections or further links to this page, send an email to Aaron Fox
Colin Turnbull's recordings, presented on Mbuti Pygmies of the Ituri Rainforest (on the Folkways Records site, with audio)
More recordings from the Ituri Rainforest Pygmies 
(on the Amazon.com website, with audo; N.B. These are different recordings from the ones on the Folkways disc)
Steven Feld's Recordings Made Over Three Decades in Papua New Guinea
(click each album image for sound samples and more information)
Steven Feld's recordings in Greek Macedonia 
Photographs, music, and deails on photographer Dick Blau's homepage
(click the "music" link at the top for audio samples)
Read more details and order from University Press of New England
Feld's Soundscape Recording "Bells and Winter Festivals of Greek Macedonia" (Folkways Records)
Mickey Hart's World Series and Other Productions
Hugo Zemp's Recordings of Solomon Island Music on Video (2 VHS tapes and study guide, from the Society for Ethnomusicology)
Order a CD of Solomon Islands Panpipe Music recorded by Hugo Zemp from Amazon.com
related readings:
For users with access to JSTOR: Read Hugo Zemp's "Aspects of 'Are'are Musical Theory," from Ethnomusicology, 23/1 (1979); "Melanesian Solo Polyphonic Panpipe Music," Ethnomusicology 25/3 (1981); and "The/An Ethnomusicologist and the Record Business," from Yearbook for Traditional Music, vol. 28 (1996).
Simha Arom's Recordings of Pygmy Music 
Anthology of World Music: Africa: The Ba-Benzele Pygmies, Released 1998
(Rounder Records, many audio samples)
Central Africa: Musical Anthology: Aka Pygmies (2-CD SET, at Amazon)
Baka Pygmy Music of Cameroon
(UNESCO Records; no audio available)
Aka Pygmy Music of the Central African Republic 
(UNESCO Records; no audio available)
related readings:
For users with access to Project Muse: Read Steven Feld's 2000 article "A Sweet Lullaby for World Music" from Public Culture, 12(10). [PDF]
For users with access to JSTOR: Read Steven Feld's "Pygmy POP. A Genealogy of Schizophonic Mimesis," from Yearbook for Traditional Music, vol. 28 (1996) [PDF]
Read Simha Arom's The Use of Play-Back Techniques in the Study of Oral Polyphonies
from Ethnomusicology, Vol. 20, No. 3. (1976) on JSTOR.
Marina Roseman's recordings of Temiar, Malaysian Rainforest
Dream Songs and Healing Sounds in the Rainforests of Malaysia (Folkways, with audio samples)
related reading:
For users with JSTOR access:Read Marina Roseman's "The Social Structuring of Sound: The Temiar of Peninsular Malaysia," Ethnomusicology, Vol. 28, No. 3. (1984).
Manolete Mora's recordings of the T'boli people (Philippines)
Read more and listen to samples at Rykodisc.
World Soundscape Project 
An Overview of the Project
World Soundscape Project Tape Library - Europe (audio materials)
Detailed History of the WSP in The Canadian Encyclopedia
Biography of composer R. Murray Schafer, founder of the project
Vancouver Soundscape 1972/Soundscape Vancouver 1996
(EarthEar recording, with audio samples)
Acoustic Ecology Resources
World Forum for Acoustic Ecology
EarthEar Environmental Sound Art Galleries
The Acoustic Ecology Institute
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Special thanks to Steven Feld for providing many of these links
For A Complete Discography of Steven Feld's Recordings:
http://www.bosavipeoplesfund.org/rec.html
