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Recording Culture
Audio Documentary and the Ethnographic Experience



September 2008 | 104 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Recording Culture: Audio Documentary and the Ethnographic Experience is the first book to explore audio documentary as a research method. Authors Daniel Makagon and Mark Neumann demonstrate that audio documentary based in the practices of fieldwork increases the potential for researchers to reach academic and popular audiences and work collaboratively with people in the pursuit and representation of knowledge and experience.

Recording Culture: Audio Documentary and the Ethnographic Experience is paired with a companion Web site at www.recordingculture.org that contains links to exemplary audio ethnographies.


 
INTRODUCTION
 
1. Writing Culture and Recording Culture
 
2. Sonic Compositions
 
3. The Citizen Storyteller
 
APPENDIX

Provides some useful background for individuals investigating paractice.

Jane Jackson
Educational Psychology , The Open University
September 6, 2010

Excellent book for advanced qual

Anna Wilson
Education Dept, Chapman University - Orange
October 26, 2009
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Key features
KEY FEATURES:
  • Encourages readers to critically listen to their sites of analysis and the people they study
  • Offers an ethnographic alternative that moves beyond the written form
  • Provides researchers with a broader historical context for recording culture projects
  • Offers students a better sense of ethnography's relationship to popular documentary fieldwork
  • Includes creative sonic fieldwork projects
  • Demonstrates how audio documentary as a qualitative fieldwork practice can be connected to public life and community-building as citizen storytelling
  • Offers a practical guide to getting started in the Appendix

Sample Materials & Chapters

Introduction