UID:
almafu_9961455202602883
Format:
1 online resource (241 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4780-5902-8
Series Statement:
Sign, Storage, Transmission Series
Content:
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.
Note:
Cover -- Contents -- Note on Sound Recordings -- Gallery -- Prologue: Catchers of the Living: Fragment I. Samba Diallo: "The War Of The Whites" / "Catcher Of The Living" -- Introduction: Listening to Acoustic Fragments: Fragment ii. Jámafáda: "the War is Horrible" -- 1. Abdoulaye Niang: Voice, Race, and the Suspension of Communication in Linguistic Recordings: Fragment iii. Asmani Ben Ahmad: "Once Upon a Time" -- 2. Mohamed Nur: Traces in Archives, Linguistic Texts, and Museums in Germany: Fragment iv. Josef Ntwanumbi: "we are Initiates" -- 3. Albert Kudjabo and Stephan Bischoff: Mysterious Sounds, Opaque Languages, and Otherworldly Voices: Fragment V. Mamadou Gregoire: "The Sea Requests Fish from the Rivers" -- Afterword: Knowing by Ear -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Hoffmann, Anette Knowing by Ear Durham : Duke University Press,c2024 ISBN 9781478030027
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781478059028
