Through a combination of text, colour photographs and sound recordings, Sonic ethnography explores the role of sound in the performance of local identities in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. The book makes a compelling argument for taking sound seriously as a crucial component of social life and as an ethnographic form of representation.

Lorenzo Ferrarini is a Lecturer in Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester
Nicola Scaldaferri is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Milan

Introduction
1 When the trees resound: towards a sonic ethnography of the Maggio festival in Accettura
2 Soundmasks in resounding places: listening to the Campanaccio of San Mauro Forte
3 Sonic devotion and sonic control: struggles for power over a festival soundscape
4 Sounds and images of nostalgia: the revival of Lucanian wheat festivals
5 Voices across the ocean: recorded memories and diasporic identity in the archive of Giuseppe Chiaffitella
6 Doing research in sound: music-making as creative intervention
7 Photographing as an anthropologist: notes on developing a photo-ethnographic practice in Basilicata
Afterword by Steven Feld
Listening guide
Audio tracks:
Soundscape composition - Accettura 2005 - Tuesday (17 May) by Steven Feld
Sound-chapters:
1 The saint and the tree
2 Rhythms in the dark
3 'We came a long way...'
4 Dancing with wheat
5 Memories from a loyal companion
6 A musical journey with my zampogna
References
Index