Thesis
The social biography of ethnomusicological field recordings: eliciting responses to Hugh Tracey's 'the sound of Africa' series
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This thesis is an ethnographic analysis of a collection of field recordings of music from sub-Saharan Africa: The Sound of Africa series made and published by Hugh Tracey between 1933 and 1973. I analyse the aims, methods, value and potential use of this collection, now held at the International Library of African Music (ILAM), in order to address a gap in the ethnomusicological literature and to begin to develop a critical framework for an evaluation of field recording and aural ...
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+ Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Funding agency for:
Lobley, N
Grant:
117994
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2010
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
Item Description
- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:11974
- Deposit date:
- 2015-07-28
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Noel Lobley
- Copyright date:
- 2010
- Notes:
- This thesis is not currently available in ORA
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