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

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Title

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

Subject

Archive

Description

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)."

Creator

Hilden, Irene

Source

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58571

Publisher

Leuven University Press

Date

2022

Contributor

Siti Muzaroh

Rights

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

Format

pdf

Language

English

Identifier

DOI: 10.11116/9789461664693
ISBN: 9789461664709, 9789462703407, 9789462702189, 9789462703100, 9789461664693

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