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Knowing by ear : listening to voice recordings with African prisoners of war in German camps (1915-1918) /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoffmann, Anette, 1965- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.
Series:Sign, storage, transmission.
Subjects:
Prisoners of war > Germany > History > 20th century > Archival resources.
Africans > Germany > History > 20th century > Archival resources.
World War, 1914-1918 > Prisoners and prisons, German.
Prisoners' songs > Germany.
Sound recordings in ethnology > Germany.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Catchers of the Living
  • Fragment I. Samba Diallo: "The war of the whites" / "Catcher of the living"
  • Listening to Acoustic Fragments
  • Fragment II. Jámafáda: "The war is horrible"
  • Abdoulaye Niang: Voice, Race, and the Suspension of Communication in Linguistic Recordings
  • Fragment III. Asmani bin Ahmad: "Once upon a time"
  • Mohamed Nur: Traces in Archives, Linguistics Texts, and Museums in Germany
  • Fragment IV. Josef Ntwanumbi: "We are initiates"
  • Albert Kudjabo and Stephan Bischoff: Mysterious Sounds, Opaque Languages and Otherworldly Voices
  • Fragment V. Mamadou Gregoire: "The sea requests fish from the rivers"