For Science, Broadcasting, and Conservation

Wildlife Recording, the BBC, and the Consolidation of a British Library of Wildlife Sounds

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5032015
AutoresJoeri Bruyninckx (0000-0002-9485-161X, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume60
Fascículo2S
PáginasS188-S215
Data de publicação2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTechnology and Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729
EditoraProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/tech.2019.0068
PMID31231077
OpenAlexW2950659010
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas22

After World War II, wildlife recordists and bioacousticians took advantage of advances in electronics and acoustics to collect, store, and analyze recordings of animal vocalizations, leading to the establishment and expansion of numerous wildlife sound archives worldwide. This article traces the technological, organizational, and social arrangements that transformed a private collection of recordings by wildlife recordist Ludwig Koch in the 1930s into one of the largest sound archives of its kind. It argues that this sound archive was consolidated through the collective efforts of a recording community-an unlikely alliance of academic biologists, commercial and amateur hobby recordists, and the public service broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), each with a stake in the development, use, and popularization of wildlife recordings. Zooming in on the integration of British naturalists with the BBC, the article shows how, despite scientists' oft-noted suspicion of the media, these parties developed a mutually beneficial association

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