Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive Dealing with the Berlin Sound Archive's Acoustic Legacies

By:

Hilden, Irene [auth]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Leuven Leuven University Press 2022Description: 1 electronic resource (300 p.)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9789461664693
9789461664709
9789462702189
9789462703100
9789462703407

Subject(s):

Online resources:

Summary: The colonial past through objects of sound The Berlin Sound Archive (Lautarchiv) consists of an extensive collection of sound recordings, compiled for scientific purposes in the first half of the 20th century. Recorded on shellac are stories and songs, personal testimonies and poems, glossaries and numbers. This book engages with the archive by consistently focusing on recordings produced under colonial conditions. With a firm commitment to postcolonial scholarship, Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive is a historical ethnography of a metropolitan institution that participated in the production and preservation of colonial structures of power and knowledge. The book examines sound objects and listening practices that render the coloniality of knowledge fragile and inconsistent, revealing the absent presences of colonial subjects who are given little or no place in established national narratives and collective memories. Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content)."

Item type:

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode
Electronic-Books	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	E-Books Open Access			Available

Open Access Unrestricted online access star

The colonial past through objects of sound The Berlin Sound Archive (Lautarchiv) consists of an extensive collection of sound recordings, compiled for scientific purposes in the first half of the 20th century. Recorded on shellac are stories and songs, personal testimonies and poems, glossaries and numbers. This book engages with the archive by consistently focusing on recordings produced under colonial conditions. With a firm commitment to postcolonial scholarship, Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive is a historical ethnography of a metropolitan institution that participated in the production and preservation of colonial structures of power and knowledge. The book examines sound objects and listening practices that render the coloniality of knowledge fragile and inconsistent, revealing the absent presences of colonial subjects who are given little or no place in established national narratives and collective memories. Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content)."

Humboldt-Universitt̃ zu Berlin

KU Leuven

Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ cc

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

English

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.