Course: Anthropology of Sound - bmc.ANTH.B366.001.F26

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Assignment guidelines and submission
- Select activity upload link to your reading/listening log here
  
  upload link to your reading/listening log here Assignment
  
  Opened: Wednesday, September 2, 2026, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Thursday, December 10, 2026, 12:00 AM
  
  This is a running document that you will add to throughout the semester.
Select section Sound recording equipment info

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Sound recording equipment info
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  Sound recording equipment info Page
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links to sound installations in Philly
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Sept 2
- Select activity Basic Sound Concepts
  
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- Select activity links to short articles/blog pieces
  
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- Select activity links to explanations of visual representations of sound
  
  links to explanations of visual representations of sound Page
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Sept 9
- Select activity Feld Sound Structure as Social Structure
  
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- Select activity Feld and Brenneis Doing Anth in Sound
  
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- Select activity Schafer. The Soundscape (Note: there are 4 selections from Shafer's book here: "Introduction"; "classification"; "listening"; and "glossary"
  
  Schafer. The Soundscape (Note: there are 4 selections from Shafer's book here: "Introduction"; "classification"; "listening"; and "glossary" File PDF
  
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- Select activity Akiyama, Unsettling the World Soundscape Project
  
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- Select activity Peterson and Brennan A Sonic Ethnography
  
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- Select activity Bitter, Ten Ways to Listen
  
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- Select activity Guttierez What is a Sound Walk
  
  Guttierez What is a Sound Walk URL
- Select activity optional/for reference: World Soundscape Project website
  
  optional/for reference: World Soundscape Project website URL
- Select activity optional/for reference: Palmese, The World Ear Project
  
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- Select activity Sound Studies antecedents slides in class
  
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Sept 16
- Select activity Makagon and Neuman Recording Culture (Note: pdf includes 3 chapters, but you only need to read chp 2, "Sonic Compositions"
  
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- Select activity Lane and Carlyle. In the Field - interviews: please CHOOSE 1 to read
  
  Lane and Carlyle. In the Field - interviews: please CHOOSE 1 to read Folder
- Select activity Smiley, Field Recording or Field Observation?
  
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- Select activity Listening guidelines for sept 16
  
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Listening materials for 9/16
- Select activity Steven Feld, Rainforest Soundwalks
  
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- Select activity Feld. Rainforest Soundwalks Liner Notes.
  
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- Select activity Steven Feld, The Time of Bells 1 Finland, Greece and France
  
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- Select activity Feld. The Time of Bells 1: Soundscapes of Italy, Finland, Greece and Grance. Liner Notes.
  
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- Select activity Steven Feld, Time of Bells 2 Finland Norway Italy Greece
  
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- Select activity Feld. The Time of Bells 2: Soundscapes of Finland, Norway, Italy and Greece Liner Notes.
  
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- Select activity Tony Schwartz, Nueva York (liner notes in pdf file at bottom)
  
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- Select activity Colin Turnbull, Music of the Ituri forest (liner notes in pdf file at bottom)
  
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Sept 23
- Select activity Martin, Hearing Change in the Chocolate City
  
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- Select activity Martin, Plainly Audible
  
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- Select activity Eisenlohr Atmospheric Citizenship
  
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- Select activity Sterne, Sounds like the mall of America
  
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- Select activity Veeraraghavan, What is heard
  
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- Select activity Bates, What Studios Do
  
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Sept 30
- Select activity Optional: Sakakeeny, Under the bridge
  
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Oct 7
- Select activity Karel Loudspeaker Broadcasts
  
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- Select activity Larkin Techniques of Inattention
  
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- Select activity Gerety Amplified Sacrifice
  
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- Select activity Gerety short film (5 mins) "Mantras 2 the Max"
  
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- Select activity Karel recordings-- go with reading
  
  Karel recordings-- go with reading Folder
  
  Track 4 (p 52)-- distortion
  Track 5 (p 67-69) -- explosives
  Track 6 (p 77) -- multiple kombus
  Track 7 (p 85)-- bandsets playing in procession
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Oct 21
- Select activity Eisenberg, Resonant voices and spatial politics
  
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Oct 28
- Select activity Lorea, Singing as method
  
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- Select activity Novak Japanoise chapters 1 and 5
  
  Novak Japanoise chapters 1 and 5 Folder
- Select activity Heller Between Silence and Pain
  
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- Select activity Tatro The Hard Work of Screaming
  
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- Select activity Henriques Sonic Dominance
  
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- Select activity 9/11 memorial "Tower of Voices" links
  
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Nov 4
- Select activity Hsieh, Noisy coexistence
  
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- Select activity Sykes Sound Studies Religion
  
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- Select activity Cardoso Sound Politics
  
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- Select activity Peterson Environmental Imaginaries
  
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Nov 11
- Select activity Guy, Listeing to Taiwan's garbage trucks
  
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Nov 18
- Select activity Chion concepts/notes
  
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Nov 25
- Select activity Ethics notes
  
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- Select activity Rosenblum, Auditory Ethics
  
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Dec 2
- Select activity Tausig Bangkok is Ringing podcast episode 6
  
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- Select activity Tausig podcast Bangkok is Ringing episode 1
  
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- Select activity Kunreuther Sounds of Democracy
  
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- Select activity cities and memory protest sound map
  
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Dec 9
Select section Journals, books, resources on sound

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Journals, books, resources on sound
- Select activity other resources-- journals and blogs
  
  other resources-- journals and blogs Page