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Recording Culture: Audio Documentary and the Ethnographic Experience (2008)

By Daniel Makagon and Mark Neumann
SAGE Publishing
Paperback, eBook, 104pp.

Recording Culture
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.
Daniel Makagon, PhD specializes in urban communication, cultural studies, ethnography, media criticism, and the study of community. His books include Underground: The Subterranean Culture of Punk House Shows and Where the Ball Drops: Days and Nights in Times Square​.

Mark Neumann, PhD is the founder and Director of DocumentaryWorks.org. He also serves as Director and Professor at the Northern Arizona University’s School of Communication. 
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