On the repatriation of recorded sound from ethnomusicological archives : a survey of some of the issues pertaining to people's access to documentation of their musical heritage (Book, 1993) [WorldCat.org]
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On the repatriation of recorded sound from ethnomusicological archives : a survey of some of the issues pertaining to people's access to documentation of their musical heritage

Author: Robert C Lancefield
Publisher: 1993.
Dissertation: M.A. Wesleyan University 1993
Edition/Format:  Thesis/dissertation : Thesis/dissertation : Manuscript  Archival Material : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Academic theses
Material Type: Thesis/dissertation, Manuscript
Document Type: Book, Archival Material
All Authors / Contributors: Robert C Lancefield
OCLC Number: 30120161
Reproduction Notes: Print reproduction.
Description: 2 volumes in 1 (xi, 571 leaves) ; 28 cm
Responsibility: by Robert Charles Lancefield.

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by rlancefield (WorldCat user on 2007-11-20)

Preface (iv) A Note on Orthography (xi) Part I. On Issues 1. Introduction (3) 2. On Terminology (44) 3. Ethics, Museology, & Ethnomusicology (93) Part II. On Objects 4. On the Repatriation of Cultural Objects (147) 5. On the Collecting of Cultural Objects (169) Part III. On Sound 6. On the Collecting of Cultural Sound (184) 7. On the Repatriation of Cultural Sound (226) 8. Case Study: The Wesleyan University World Music Archives’ Navajo Recordings (309) 9. Conclusion (403) Appendix: Questionnaire & Responses (418) References Cited (440)

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by rlancefield (WorldCat user on 2007-11-20)

Abstract: Archival collections of ethnomusicological recordings can be valuable to people in the communities whose practices they document. Often the return of recordings raises complex ethical questions. Some are similar to questions implicated in disputes over the repatriation of objects. Others arise because recordings are replicable replicas of evanescent sound events. Literature in ethnomusicology, museology, anthropology, photography, and other fields addresses pertinent issues regarding collecting processes, repositories’ social roles, identity construction, and ethical and legal concerns. Questionnaire responses from sound archives in eighteen countries provide a synchronic view of repatriation practices. A case study of the return of certain recordings of Navajo music provides some sense of the diverse ways of viewing one such process. From these perspectives repatriation is seen as part of the global flow of recordings, and as enacting an ethic founded in responsibility to the creators of the music documented in the collections for which archives care.

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