Thomas Porcello
Biographic Data
| ID | 121682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Porcello |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Porcello |
| SIGNATURE | PORCELLO T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vassar College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 235 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Re-Making Sound: An Experiential Approach to Sound Studies
Re-Making Sound is concise and flexible primer to sound studies. It takes students through six ways of conceptualizing sound and its links to other social phenomena: soundscapes; noise; sound and semiotics of the voice; sound and/through/in text; background sound/sound design; and sound art. Each chapter summarizes the history and scholarly theoretical underpinnings of these areas and concludes with a student activity that concretizes the histori…
Sounds of Vacation: Political Economies of Caribbean Tourism, by Jocelyne Guilbault & Timothy Rommen (eds.)
Listening to war: Sound, music, trauma, and survival in wartime Iraq
The sounds of war—from battle cries and war horns, to the clash of swords and sabres, and the powerful cacophony of artillery and bombs—have long been noted (and often celebrated) in popular imagin
Recording Culture: Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains
Thinking about Frances Densmore
commentary, Music and Sound, Edison cylinder recorder, Mountain Chief, Native Americans, visual anthropology, National Anthropological Archives, North America, indigenous peoples, Blackfoot
The Reorganization of the Sensory World
Although anthropological and critical social theory have a long interest in sensory experience, work on the senses has intensified within the past 20 years. This article traces three sensory genealogies within anthropology: the work of Ong and McLuhan as critiqued and advanced by David Howes and the Concordia Project; phenomenological studies as advanced by Paul Stoller; and a focus on materialities as advanced by Nadia Seremetakis. Studies of in…
Soundscapes: Toward a Sounded Anthropology
A generation of scholars in multiple disciplines has investigated sound in ways that are productive for anthropologists. We introduce the concept of soundscape as a modality for integrating this work into an anthropological approach. We trace its history as a response to the technological mediations and listening practices emergent in modernity and note its absence in the anthropological literature. We then trace the history of technology that ga…
Speaking of Sound: Language and the Professionalization of Sound-Recording Engineers
This paper examines the role of speech-about-sound in sound-recording practice and the training of prospective sound engineers. The shift from apprenticeship to institutional learning in the mid-1980s is described as an effect of the digitization of the recording process, and provides a background to discussing how recording degree programs teach 'professional audition' to students via processes of instruction and internships. Two conversations r…
Music in Lubavitcher Life
Music in Lubavitcher Life. Ellen Koskoff. Champagne: University of Illinois Press, 2001. 225 pp
Music Mediated as Live in Austin: Sound, Technology, and Recording Practice
Tails out: Social Phenomenology and the Ethnographic Representation of Technology in Music-Making
L'enregistrement sonore (bande sonore, cassette, disque) peut faire l'objet d'une reflexion epistemologique et phenomenologique sur la fabrication (creativite et pratique) de la musique. Dans cet article, l'enregistrement sonore est interprete comme la metaphore d'une experience cumulant l'espace social de la rencontre musicale, l'ecoute, la pratique musicale et la recherche ethnographique. La musique est le cadre de mediations technologiques, so…
Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology
The ethics of digital audio-sampling: Engineers' Discourse
Over the course of the past several years the use of digital audio-sampling by composers, musicians, engineers and producers has increased to a point where the sampler is now as common in the recording studio as the microphone. Digital samplers allow one to encode a fragment of sound, from one to several seconds in duration, in a digitised binary form which can then be stored in computer memory. This stored sound may be played back through a keyb…
Soundscapes: Toward a Sounded Anthropology
A generation of scholars in multiple disciplines has investigated sound in ways that are productive for anthropologists. We introduce the concept of soundscape as a modality for integrating this work into an anthropological approach. We trace its history as a response to the technological mediations and listening practices emergent in modernity and note its absence in the anthropological literature. We then trace the history of technology that ga…
The Reorganization of the Sensory World
Although anthropological and critical social theory have a long interest in sensory experience, work on the senses has intensified within the past 20 years. This article traces three sensory genealogies within anthropology: the work of Ong and McLuhan as critiqued and advanced by David Howes and the Concordia Project; phenomenological studies as advanced by Paul Stoller; and a focus on materialities as advanced by Nadia Seremetakis. Studies of in…
Speaking of Sound: Language and the Professionalization of Sound-Recording Engineers
This paper examines the role of speech-about-sound in sound-recording practice and the training of prospective sound engineers. The shift from apprenticeship to institutional learning in the mid-1980s is described as an effect of the digitization of the recording process, and provides a background to discussing how recording degree programs teach 'professional audition' to students via processes of instruction and internships. Two conversations r…
The ethics of digital audio-sampling: Engineers' Discourse
Over the course of the past several years the use of digital audio-sampling by composers, musicians, engineers and producers has increased to a point where the sampler is now as common in the recording studio as the microphone. Digital samplers allow one to encode a fragment of sound, from one to several seconds in duration, in a digitised binary form which can then be stored in computer memory. This stored sound may be played back through a keyb…
Music Mediated as Live in Austin: Sound, Technology, and Recording Practice
Tails out: Social Phenomenology and the Ethnographic Representation of Technology in Music-Making
L'enregistrement sonore (bande sonore, cassette, disque) peut faire l'objet d'une reflexion epistemologique et phenomenologique sur la fabrication (creativite et pratique) de la musique. Dans cet article, l'enregistrement sonore est interprete comme la metaphore d'une experience cumulant l'espace social de la rencontre musicale, l'ecoute, la pratique musicale et la recherche ethnographique. La musique est le cadre de mediations technologiques, so…
Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology
The ethics of digital audio-sampling: Engineers' Discourse
Over the course of the past several years the use of digital audio-sampling by composers, musicians, engineers and producers has increased to a point where the sampler is now as common in the recording studio as the microphone. Digital samplers allow one to encode a fragment of sound, from one to several seconds in duration, in a digitised binary form which can then be stored in computer memory. This stored sound may be played back through a keyb…
Tails out: Social Phenomenology and the Ethnographic Representation of Technology in Music-Making
L'enregistrement sonore (bande sonore, cassette, disque) peut faire l'objet d'une reflexion epistemologique et phenomenologique sur la fabrication (creativite et pratique) de la musique. Dans cet article, l'enregistrement sonore est interprete comme la metaphore d'une experience cumulant l'espace social de la rencontre musicale, l'ecoute, la pratique musicale et la recherche ethnographique. La musique est le cadre de mediations technologiques, so…
Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology
Music Mediated as Live in Austin: Sound, Technology, and Recording Practice
Speaking of Sound: Language and the Professionalization of Sound-Recording Engineers
This paper examines the role of speech-about-sound in sound-recording practice and the training of prospective sound engineers. The shift from apprenticeship to institutional learning in the mid-1980s is described as an effect of the digitization of the recording process, and provides a background to discussing how recording degree programs teach 'professional audition' to students via processes of instruction and internships. Two conversations r…
Music in Lubavitcher Life
Music in Lubavitcher Life. Ellen Koskoff. Champagne: University of Illinois Press, 2001. 225 pp
The Reorganization of the Sensory World
Although anthropological and critical social theory have a long interest in sensory experience, work on the senses has intensified within the past 20 years. This article traces three sensory genealogies within anthropology: the work of Ong and McLuhan as critiqued and advanced by David Howes and the Concordia Project; phenomenological studies as advanced by Paul Stoller; and a focus on materialities as advanced by Nadia Seremetakis. Studies of in…
Soundscapes: Toward a Sounded Anthropology
A generation of scholars in multiple disciplines has investigated sound in ways that are productive for anthropologists. We introduce the concept of soundscape as a modality for integrating this work into an anthropological approach. We trace its history as a response to the technological mediations and listening practices emergent in modernity and note its absence in the anthropological literature. We then trace the history of technology that ga…
Thinking about Frances Densmore
commentary, Music and Sound, Edison cylinder recorder, Mountain Chief, Native Americans, visual anthropology, National Anthropological Archives, North America, indigenous peoples, Blackfoot
Recording Culture: Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains
Listening to war: Sound, music, trauma, and survival in wartime Iraq
The sounds of war—from battle cries and war horns, to the clash of swords and sabres, and the powerful cacophony of artillery and bombs—have long been noted (and often celebrated) in popular imagin
Sounds of Vacation: Political Economies of Caribbean Tourism, by Jocelyne Guilbault & Timothy Rommen (eds.)
Re-Making Sound: An Experiential Approach to Sound Studies
Re-Making Sound is concise and flexible primer to sound studies. It takes students through six ways of conceptualizing sound and its links to other social phenomena: soundscapes; noise; sound and semiotics of the voice; sound and/through/in text; background sound/sound design; and sound art. Each chapter summarizes the history and scholarly theoretical underpinnings of these areas and concludes with a student activity that concretizes the histori…
Art (5 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Acoustics (4 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Music History and Culture (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)