Early Sound Archiving and the Making of Scientific Resources
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3373857 |
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| Authors | Viktoria Tkaczyk (0000-0001-6856-1224, Cal Poly Humboldt, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 114 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 373-379 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Isis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-1753 • E-ISSN: 1545-6994 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/724797 |
| OpenAlex | W4376869969 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
This essay focuses on the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv, established in 1900, and its subsequent commitment to collecting music, voices, and sonic evidence from all over the world. But members of the archive managed to embrace the world as a resource in another respect as well: the daily production of cylinder records required large quantities of wax and various other materials that depended on a global system of supply and considerable exploitation of nature. The essay shows that the manufacture of the cylinders resonated with the research agendas developed at the Phonogramm-Archiv during the eras of the German Empire, World War I, German colonialism, and the Weimar Republic
Acoustics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Colonialism · Empire · First world war · German · Political science · Sound (geography · Visual arts · Weimar Republic · World War II · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · History · History of Science and Natural History · Law · Musicology and Musical Analysis
| Highly cited | No |
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