Sing Me Back Home
Ethnographic Songwriting and Sardinian Language Politics
Seiten
2024
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-5386-9 (ISBN)
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-5386-9 (ISBN)
This multi-sensory ethnography invites readers and listeners to discover the Italian island of Sardinia through storytelling, music, and song.
Set on the Italian island of Sardinia, Sing Me Back Home explores language and culture through songwriting as an ethnographic method. Based on thirteen months of ethnographic fieldwork writing songs with Sardinian musicians, artisans, shepherds, poets, and language activists, Kristina Jacobsen asks: How are Sardinian lives and language ideologies narrated against the backdrop of American music?
The book shows how Sardinian musicians sing their own history between the lines. It reveals how Sardinian songs become a site of transduction where, through the process of songwriting, recording, and performance, the energy from one genre of music and lingua-culture is harnessed to signal another one much closer to home.
Sing Me Back Home is accompanied by original songs written and recorded in the field, with links to songs in each chapter. It includes songwriting prompts and lyrics, a glossary of key terms, and photographs from the field. Drawing on work from critical collaborative research, auto-ethnography, public anthropology, arts-based research, and ethnographic poetry, this sensory ethnography offers new ways for us to hear culture through stories and songs.
Set on the Italian island of Sardinia, Sing Me Back Home explores language and culture through songwriting as an ethnographic method. Based on thirteen months of ethnographic fieldwork writing songs with Sardinian musicians, artisans, shepherds, poets, and language activists, Kristina Jacobsen asks: How are Sardinian lives and language ideologies narrated against the backdrop of American music?
The book shows how Sardinian musicians sing their own history between the lines. It reveals how Sardinian songs become a site of transduction where, through the process of songwriting, recording, and performance, the energy from one genre of music and lingua-culture is harnessed to signal another one much closer to home.
Sing Me Back Home is accompanied by original songs written and recorded in the field, with links to songs in each chapter. It includes songwriting prompts and lyrics, a glossary of key terms, and photographs from the field. Drawing on work from critical collaborative research, auto-ethnography, public anthropology, arts-based research, and ethnographic poetry, this sensory ethnography offers new ways for us to hear culture through stories and songs.
Kristina Jacobsen is an associate professor of ethnomusicology and anthropology at the University of New Mexico.
Note: House on Swallow Street
Preface
1. Introduction
2. The Saddle of the Devils
Ponte / Bridge
3. Semus Torrande / We’re Going Back
Ponte / Bridge
4. Sounding Grezzo
5. A Figment of the Past
6. We Are All Texinians Now
7. Conclusion
Appendix A: Cowriting Prompts
Appendix B: Song Lyrics
Glossary
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.03.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom |
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 400 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-5386-2 / 1487553862 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-5386-9 / 9781487553869 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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