2023
DOI: 10.1353/exp.2023.a913754
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Reading Sound as a Decolonial Method: Discovering Aurality in the French-Algerian Archive

Michelle D. Weitzel

Abstract: This article makes a case for "reading sound" in archives, oral histories, and written testimonies and models the process via a reflexive engagement with the author's own research. Drawing on examples from French colonial archives in the Archives Nationales d'Outre Mer and the Service Historique de la Defense, it discusses how to make sounded references meaningful, ways to think about finding patterns across sound events, and why scholars might bother. Paying attention to the sonic, as well as to broader senso… Show more

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