Who sang this song? Ein akustisches Zeugnis, gefangen zwischen Selbstermächtigung und Objektstatus

Hilden, Irene

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“…Following Das, Lange, and Scheffner, what motivated my own initial engagement with the POW recordings was the ambivalent condition of the sonic sources. I was interested in the tensions between the recordings' objectifying status and moments of articulating political subjectivity (Hilden 2015(Hilden , 2018a. In previous research, I too investigated sound testimonies of Gurkha soldiers imprisoned in the Half Moon Camp in Wünsdorf.…”

Section: Shifting Paradigmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…After several trips to the Wünsdorf camp, Lüders and Schulze followed some of the soldiers they had worked with to camps in southern Romania. 39 As I have shown elsewhere, Lüders did not seem entirely convinced of the sonic scientific enterprise-despite his efforts (Hilden 2015). For him and many other Commission members, the sound recordings represented a by-product of the transliteration, which scholars continued to build their analyses on (Hennig 2016;Kaplan 2013;Meyer-Kalkus 2015).…”

Section: Lüders and Glasenappmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…the restitution report by Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy (2018), commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture. See also my contribution to the volume, which focuses on a single sound object from the Lautarchiv and its sensitive nature (Hilden 2018a). See LAHUB, personal information form LA 1373 / 1374.…”

Section: Collective Listeningmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive

Hilden¹

2022

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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 the colonial conditions under which the recordings were produced. 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 by 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.

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Section: Shifting Paradigmsmentioning

confidence: 99%