Sound Fragments - From Field Recording to African Electronic Stories

About the author

NOEL LOBLEY (Charlottesville, VA) is assistant professor of music at the University of Virginia. Lobley is an ethnomusicologist, sound curator, and artist who works across the disciplines of music, anthropology, sound art, and composition. He has served on the committee of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, is an appointed member of the Royal Anthropological Institute's ethnomusicology committee, and was awarded the 2015 Curl Lectureship at the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Summary

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. Sound Fragments follows what happens when a colonial sound archive is repurposed and reimagined by local artists in post-apartheid South Africa.

Product details

• Authors: Noel Lobley
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9780819580771
• ISBN: 978-0-8195-8077-1
• No. of pages: 348
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 228 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 463 g
• Series: Music / Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries