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Author Lobley, Noel, 1974- author.

Title Sound fragments : from field recording to African electronic stories / Noel Lobley
Published Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2022]

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Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Foreword -- Contents -- Prologue -- Notes on Language, Names, Terminology, and Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Colonial Microphones -- One: Hugh Tracey Records the Sound of Africa -- Two: Listening behind Field Recordings -- Part II: Local Voices -- Three: Donkey Cart Curation, Xhosa Anthems, and Township Terms -- Four: Art and Community Activism around the Archive -- Five: The Black Power Station -- Conclusion: Curating Sound Stories -- Epilogue 1: Sikhona siphila phakathi kwenu -- Epilogue 2: Conversations around Hip Hop
Epilogue 3: Umntu ngumntu ngabantu -- Appendix 1: Listening Sessions and Personal Interviews (2008-2019) -- Appendix 2: Song Translations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover
Summary "Ethnographic study of the creative decolonization of the International Library of African Music in South Africa, the world's largest archive of field recordings of African music"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 02, 2022)
Subject Tracey, Hugh.
SUBJECT Tracey, Hugh
Tracey, Hugh fast
Subject International Library of African Music.
SUBJECT International Library of African Music fast
Subject Ethnomusicology -- Africa -- Archival resources
Music -- Repatriation -- South Africa
Sound recordings in ethnomusicology -- Africa
Music -- Repatriation
Sound recordings in ethnomusicology
Africa
South Africa
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021055870
ISBN 9780819580788
0819580783