"Ethnographic Rubbish" – special issue on fieldwork recordings

[Heikki Wilenius]

(Apologies for cross-posting.)

Dear list members,

You might be interested in this Journal of Sonic Studies special issue co-edited by Jonathan Larcher and I, which discusses the epistemology of ethnographic video and sound recordings: their commodity forms, their failures, and the possibility of their redemption:

https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/558606/558686

Table of contents:

• Introduction: Exploring the Phenomenon of Sonic Waste in Anthropology - Jonathan Larcher and Heikki Wilenius
• How to Fail a Field Recording: An Ethnomusicologist’s Perspective - Victor A. Stoichiță
  
• Sound Scraps and Resources of Ethnographic Writing - Julie Métais
  
• Authoring Noise, Noising Authority: Loudness and Oratory in an East Javanese Family Gathering - Heikki Wilenius
  
• Touching Excess: Haptic Sound from the Multispecies Delta - Sandro Simon
  
• (Back)ground Noise. A Multimodal Ethnography of Loudspeakers in a Roma Neighborhood - Jonathan Larcher
  
• Locating Her Kind: A Sonic Essay - Harsha Menon
  
• A Conversation on Discarded Recordings - Ernst Karel, Jonathan Larcher, Heikki Wilenius
  

Best regards,

Heikki Wilenius