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How to Fail a Field Recording. An Ethnomusicologist’s Perspective (2024)

Victor A. Stoichita
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This paper reflects on the relation between “field” and “recording” in listening to “field recordings.” It is rooted in the author’s experience as a student and, subsequently, a researcher in the anthropology of music. The paper strives to map the gap between academic and artistic conceptions of field recording by asking whether and how field recordings can be failed. The author’s own experience with the genre is indeed one of frequent disenchantment. The paper identifies different meanings of field, discusses how recordings are supposed to make those fields available to the listener, and asks whether in field recording “music” and “soundscapes” should be treated as different kinds of objects.
typeresearch exposition
date01/03/2024
published23/03/2024
last modified23/03/2024
statuspublished
copyrightStoichita
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2623369/2623370
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/JSS.2623369
published inJournal of Sonic Studies
portal issue25. Issue 25


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