Recording and remembering the sounds of Africa: ethnomusicology, sound archiving and sound elicitation

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Abstract:: Enchanted by recordings of African pygmy song, in 1986 Louis Sarno, an American carpenter, put down his tools and bought a one-way ticket to the Central African Republic. He still lives there today recording songs from the forest and has become an advocate for indigenous land and political rights. During the last three decades, he has built an unprecedented archive of recordings of music, which also includes images of performance and every-day life of a little known and endangered nomadic com...
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Institution:

University of Oxford

Division:

GLAM

Department:

Pitt Rivers Museum

Research group:

Music, Anthropology

Oxford college:

St Cross College

Role:

Author

Keywords:: Sound elicitation

Sound archives

Outreach

Field recordings

Babenzélé

African music

Xhosa
Subjects:: Ethnomusicology

Anthropology
UUID:: uuid:11fc2491-3da4-4af2-9869-3bac16c075c2
Deposit date:: 2011-05-17

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