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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Faudree, Paja

Titel

Music, Language, and Texts: Sound and Semiotic Ethnography

Ist Teil von

• Annual review of anthropology, 2012-01, Vol.41 (1), p.519-536

Ort / Verlag

Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This review surveys recent research on language-music: the unified expressive field comprising sounded and textual signs whose segmentation into "language" and "music" is culturally constructed. I argue that approaching language-music semiotically will promote-alongside the discipline's emergent "auditory turn"-greater holism in anthropological practice if coupled to the joint effort of attending to textuality while decentering its primacy. I discuss recent scholarship that demonstrates, if often implicitly, the merit of this approach. I organize this work into three overlapping themes of active research: scholarship on chronotopes and soundscapes exploring processes that reconfigure time and place; work on subject creation focusing on voice, emotion, intersubjectivity, and listening; and scholarship on the social dimensions of object creation, including technological mediation, authentication, and circulation. I conclude by discussing future directions in research on language-music and the promise such work offers of furthering the call to broaden anthropology's holism while loosening adherence to its text-centered practices.