Synopses & Reviews
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.
Key FeaturesEncourages readers to critically listen to their sites of analysis and the people they studyOffers an ethnographic alternative that moves beyond the written formProvides researchers with a broader historical context for recording culture projectsOffers students a better sense of ethnography s relationship to popular documentary fieldworkIncludes creative sonic fieldwork projectsDemonstrates how audio documentary as a qualitative fieldwork practice can be connected to public life and community-building as citizen storytellingOffers a practical guide to getting started in the Appendix
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.
Synopsis
Recording Culture: Audio Documentary and the Ethnographic Experience holds up audio documentary as a premiere form of qualitative research which can serve as an inventive method of storytelling. Based in the practices of fieldwork, audio documentary 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. This volume not only explores the methodological issues related to audio documentary, it also provides readers with practical guidance on how to produce their own audio projects.This book is an ideal supplement for courses with titles such as Audio Documentary, Ethnography, Fieldwork, and Qualitative Methods. Instructors could easily use the text to guide students through the audio documentary process, enabling them to do ethnography using technology at a relatively low cost.