A new, thirtieth-anniversary edition of the landmark ethnography that introduced the anthropology, or the cultural study, of sound.

How does a work of music stir the senses, creating feelings of joy, sadness, elation, or nostalgia? Though sentiment and emotion play a vital role in the compos

Awarded the J. I. Stanley Prize of the School of American Research.

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

How can we account for the persistent appeal of glossy commercial pop music? Why do certain performers have such emotional power, even though their music is con