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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the Third Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Introduction to the First Edition -- 1. The Boy Who Became a Muni Bird -- 2. To You They Are Birds, to Me They Are Voices in the Forest -- 3. Weeping That Moves Women to Song -- 4. The Poetics of Loss and Abandonment -- 5. Song That Moves Men to Tears -- 6. In the Form of a Bird: Kaluli Aesthetics -- Postscript, 1989 -- Appendix: Kaluli Folk Ornithology -- Glossary of Kaluli Terms -- References -- Index -- Additional Resources

The distinguished scholar Steven Feld shaped the field of the anthropology of sound and music. In this new work, he looks at the vernacular cosmopolitanism of a group of jazz players in Ghana, including some who have traveled widely, played with American jazz greats, and blended Coltrane with local instruments and philosophy. He describes their cosmopolitan outlook as an accoustemology, a way of knowing the world through sound. Feld combines memoir, biography, ethnography, and history, telling a story of diasporic intimacy and dialogue that contests both American nationalist and Afrocen.

Simpósio sobre sociomusicologia comparativa: Estrutura sonora como estrutura social