Lobley, Noel / Sound Fragments: from Field Recording to African Electronic Stories

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SKU: Lobley, Noel / Lobley, N. / Sound Fragments: from Field Recording to African Electronic Stories / 9780819580771
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AUTHOR:Noel Lobley
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Noel Lobley is assistant professor of music at the University of Virginia.


This book is an ethnographic study of sound archives and the processes of creative decolonization that form alternative modes of archiving and curating in the 21st century. It explores the histories and afterlives of sound collections and practices at the International Library of African Music. Sound Fragments follows what happens when a colonial sound archive is repurposed and reimagined by local artists in post-apartheid South Africa. The narrative speaks to larger issues in sound studies, curatorial practices, and the reciprocity and ethics of listening to and reclaiming culture. Sound Fragments interrogates how Xhosa arts activism contributes to an expanding notion of what a sound or cultural archive could be, and where it may resonate now and in future.

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May 2022

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