Anette Hoffmann
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3717293 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Anette Hoffmann |
| NOMBRES | Anette |
| APELLIDO | Hoffmann |
| FIRMA | HOFFMANN A |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Listening to Colonial History. Echoes of Coercive Knowledge Production in Historical Sound Recordings from Southern Africa
This book explores the complex relationship between sound recordings and colonial power structures in Southern Africa. Focusing on historical sound collections from the region, Anette Hoffmann examines how these recordings reflect and perpetuate coercive knowledge production practices. She argues that the act of recording itself was embedded within colonial hierarchies, influencing the selection of performers, the types of music documented, and t…
Hearing voices in the archive
This essay is an attempt to fathom the performative and textual potential of historical sound recordings from the Lautarchiv in Berlin, along the available written files and a particular set of acoustic files spoken by an isiXhosa speaker. Read and listened to together, these files document the event and rationale of the recordings of the Phonographische Kommission with a man from the Eastern Cape, who was recorded while being interned as a forei…
Introduction
Echoes of the Great War
Apart from army registers, some (often anonymous) photographs and the files of anthropometric examination, the involvement of thousands of African soldiers in WWI and their presence in POW camps in Europe seems to have left few traces in European archives. Vis-à-vis a mass of autobiographic texts on the Great War, written by Europeans and Americans, there are very few published accounts of African soldiers that would allow for their historical ex…
Introduction
The Merits and Predicaments of Opacity
Opacity is an intrinsic characteristic of Otjiherero praise poetry: it simultaneously enables and complicates reception. This essay analyzes a piece of Herereo praise poetry (omutandu) that was created for the burial of the victims of the so-called "Windhoek Shooting" in 1959 and preserved until today by means of oral transmission. It explores the poetic response of the Herero community to the forced removal of Africans from the vicinity of Windh…
Representation Matters
Listening to Colonial History. Echoes of Coercive Knowledge Production in Historical Sound Recordings from Southern Africa
This book explores the complex relationship between sound recordings and colonial power structures in Southern Africa. Focusing on historical sound collections from the region, Anette Hoffmann examines how these recordings reflect and perpetuate coercive knowledge production practices. She argues that the act of recording itself was embedded within colonial hierarchies, influencing the selection of performers, the types of music documented, and t…
Hearing voices in the archive
This essay is an attempt to fathom the performative and textual potential of historical sound recordings from the Lautarchiv in Berlin, along the available written files and a particular set of acoustic files spoken by an isiXhosa speaker. Read and listened to together, these files document the event and rationale of the recordings of the Phonographische Kommission with a man from the Eastern Cape, who was recorded while being interned as a forei…
Introduction
The Merits and Predicaments of Opacity
Opacity is an intrinsic characteristic of Otjiherero praise poetry: it simultaneously enables and complicates reception. This essay analyzes a piece of Herereo praise poetry (omutandu) that was created for the burial of the victims of the so-called "Windhoek Shooting" in 1959 and preserved until today by means of oral transmission. It explores the poetic response of the Herero community to the forced removal of Africans from the vicinity of Windh…
Introduction
Echoes of the Great War
Apart from army registers, some (often anonymous) photographs and the files of anthropometric examination, the involvement of thousands of African soldiers in WWI and their presence in POW camps in Europe seems to have left few traces in European archives. Vis-à-vis a mass of autobiographic texts on the Great War, written by Europeans and Americans, there are very few published accounts of African soldiers that would allow for their historical ex…
Hearing voices in the archive
This essay is an attempt to fathom the performative and textual potential of historical sound recordings from the Lautarchiv in Berlin, along the available written files and a particular set of acoustic files spoken by an isiXhosa speaker. Read and listened to together, these files document the event and rationale of the recordings of the Phonographische Kommission with a man from the Eastern Cape, who was recorded while being interned as a forei…
Introduction
Listening to Colonial History. Echoes of Coercive Knowledge Production in Historical Sound Recordings from Southern Africa
This book explores the complex relationship between sound recordings and colonial power structures in Southern Africa. Focusing on historical sound collections from the region, Anette Hoffmann examines how these recordings reflect and perpetuate coercive knowledge production practices. She argues that the act of recording itself was embedded within colonial hierarchies, influencing the selection of performers, the types of music documented, and t…
Representation Matters
History (5 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras) · Acoustics (3 obras) · Art (3 obras) · Diverse Musicological Studies (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Political science (3 obras) · Active listening (2 obras) · African history and culture studies (2 obras) · Archaeology (2 obras)