Abstract:The introduction presents acoustic recordings from the Lautarchiv (sound archive) in Berlin as acoustic fragments of a polyphonic historical sound track of colonial knowledge production, which were sequestered in an archive for a century. These objectified recorded moments of speech are introduced as components of larger repertoires, which in some cases turn out to be splinters of the fabric of a discursive field transmitted in form of songs and stories. Although they have been isolated from a flock of interco… Show more
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