ISBN:
9781478030027
,
9781478024842
Language:
English
Pages:
209 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Sign, storage, transmission
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Hoffmann, Anette, 1965- Knowing by ear
DDC:
940.54/7243
Keywords:
ca. 1914 bis ca. 1918 (Zeit des Ersten Weltkriegs)
;
c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1)
;
Prisoners of war History 20th century
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Archival resources
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Africans History 20th century
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Archival resources
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World War, 1914-1918 Prisoners and prisons, German
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Prisoners' songs
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Sound recordings in ethnology
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HISTORY / Africa / General
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20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
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African history
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Afrikanische Geschichte
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Geschichte: Theorie und Methoden
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HISTORY / Military / General
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HISTORY / Study & Teaching
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History: theory & methods
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Kriegsgefangene
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Prisoners of war
;
Africa
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Afrika
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Deutschland
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Germany
Abstract:
"During the First World War, thousands of young African men conscripted to fight for France and Britain were captured and held as prisoners of war in Germany, where their stories and songs were recorded and archived by German linguists. In Knowing by Ear, Anette Hoffmann demonstrates that listening to these acoustic recordings as historical sources, rather than linguistic samples, opens up possibilities for new historical perspectives and the formation of alternate archival practices and knowledge production. She foregrounds their archival presence as individual speakers and positions their recorded voices as responses to their experience of colonialism, war, and the journey from Africa to Europe. By engaging with the recordings alongside written sources, photographs, and artworks depicting the speakers, Hoffmann personalizes speakers from present-day Senegal, Somalia, Togo, and Congo. Knowing by Ear includes transcriptions of and audio links to specific recordings of spoken and sung texts, revealing acoustic archives as significant yet under-researched sources to recover historical speaking positions of colonized subjects and listen to the acoustic echo of colonial knowledge production"--
Abstract:
Anette Hoffmann examines the archive of stories and songs by WWI African POWs held in Germany to gain new understandings of extractive knowledge production and the lived experience of colonialism
Description / Table of Contents:
Catchers of the Living -- Fragment I. Samba Diallo: "The war of the whites" / "Catcher of the living" -- Listening to Acoustic Fragments -- Fragment II. Jámafáda: "The war is horrible" -- Abdoulaye Niang: Voice, Race, and the Suspension of Communication in Linguistic Recordings -- Fragment III. Asmani bin Ahmad: "Once upon a time" -- Mohamed Nur: Traces in Archives, Linguistics Texts, and Museums in Germany -- Fragment IV. Josef Ntwanumbi: "We are initiates" -- Albert Kudjabo and Stephan Bischoff: Mysterious Sounds, Opaque Languages and Otherworldly Voices -- Fragment V. Mamadou Gregoire: "The sea requests fish from the rivers"
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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