Many actors hold stakes in the vast field of sound archiving. Archival scientists adhere to standard practices aimed at conserving documents. The roots of ethnomusicology lie in archiving, many ethnomusicological scholars use archives for both research and deposit sites for field recordings. Also, archives are widely believed to serve as memory institutions, yet archiving processes construct history through excluding everything that 'does not belong in the archives'. Thus, according to French post-structuralists Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida, archives function as places of knowledge production. They are inherently linked to questions of power and control. In my dissertation, I will explore opportunities and challenges for sound archives in the 21st century. Through interviewing directors of ethnomusicological audiovisual archives I aim at giving an insight into archival practices, while at the same time showing that certain ethnomusicological discourses and the broad field of 'archivology' share many similarities.
Institution:
Center for World Music, University of Hildesheim
Country:
GERMANY
Presentation type:
poster
Date:
27 Sept Tuesday
Start time:
900
Venue:
LoC Madison Building: Dining Rm. A
Abstract: