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Sound and sentiment : birds, weeping, poetics, and song in Kaluli expression

Title
Sound and sentiment : birds, weeping, poetics, and song in Kaluli expression / Steven Feld.
Author
Feld, Steven
Publication
Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, (c)2012.

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Book/textUse in library JME 19-55Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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Description
xli, 300 pages : illustrations (some color), map; 23 cm
Subject
  • Kaluli language > Texts
  • Kaluli (Papua New Guinean people) > Social life and customs
  • Kaluli (Papua New Guinean people) > Rites and ceremonies
  • Kaluli (Papua New Guinean people) > Music > History and criticism
  • Folk music > Papua New Guinea > History and criticism
  • Folk songs, Kaluli > Papua New Guinea > History and criticism
  • Birds > Mythology > Papua New Guinea
  • Birds > Papua New Guinea
Genre/Form
  • Texts.
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-291) and index.
Language (note)
  • Includes text in Kaluli.
Contents
Introduction to the third edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Introduction to the first edition -- The boy who became a muni bird -- To you they are birds, to me they are voices in the forest -- Weeping that moves women to song -- The poetics of loss and abandonment -- Song that moves men to tears -- In the form of a bird : Kaluli aesthetics -- Postscript, 1989 -- Appendix: Kaluli folk ornithology -- Glossary of Kaluli terms.
Call Number
JME 19-55
ISBN
  • 9780822353652
  • 0822353652
LCCN
2012024696
OCLC
798058349
Author
Feld, Steven.
Title
Sound and sentiment : birds, weeping, poetics, and song in Kaluli expression / Steven Feld.
Imprint
Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, (c)2012.
Edition
3rd ed. ; thirtieth anniversary ed. with a new introduction.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-291) and index.
Language
Includes text in Kaluli.
Research Call Number
JME 19-55
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