Description
The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation is a significant edited volume that critically explores issues surrounding musical repatriation, chiefly of recordings from audiovisual archives. The Handbook provides a dynamic and richly layered collection of stories and critical questions for anyone engaged or interested in repatriation or archival work. Repatriation often is overtly guided by an ethical mandate to "return" something to where it belongs, by such means as working to provide reconnection and Indigenous control and access to cultural materials. Essential as these mandates can be, this remarkable volume reveals dimensions to repatriation beyond those which can be understood as simple acts of "giving back" or returning an archive to its "homeland." Musical repatriation can entail subjective negotiations involving living subjects, intangible elements of cultural heritage, and complex histories, situated in intersecting webs of power relations and manifold other contexts. The forty-eight expert authors of this book's thirty-eight chapters engage with multifaceted aspects of musical repatriation, situating it as a concept encompassing widely ranging modes of cultural work that can be both profoundly interdisciplinary and embedded at the core of ethnographic and historical scholarship. These authors explore a rich variety of these processes' many streams, making the volume a compelling space for critical analysis of musical repatriation and its wider significance. The Handbook presents these chapters in a way that offers numerous emergent perspectives, depending on one's chosen trajectory through the volume. From retracing the paths of archived collections to exploring memory, performance, research goals, institutional power, curation, preservation, pedagogy and method, media and transmission, digital rights and access, policy and privilege, intellectual property, ideology, and the evolving institutional norms that have marked the preservation and ownership of musical archives-The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation addresses these key topics and more in a deep, richly detailed, and diverse exploration.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsAbout the EditorsList of ContributorsAbout the Companion WebsitePathways and Trajectories: A Guide to the Organization and Use of This BookPathways toward Open Dialogues about Sonic Heritage: An Introduction to The Oxford Handbook of Musical RepatriationFrank Gunderson and Bret Woods1. Musical Traces' Retraceable Paths: The Repatriation of Recorded SoundRobert C. Lancefield2. Reflections on Reconnections: When Human and Archival Modes of Memory MeetDaniel B. Reed3. Music Archives and Repatriation: Digital Return of Hugh Tracey's "Chemirocha" Recordings in KenyaDiane Thram4. Rethinking Repatriation and Curation in Newfoundland: Archives, Angst, and OpportunityBeverly Diamond and Janice Esther Tulk5. Repatriating the Alan Lomax Haitian Recordings in Post-quake HaitiGage Averill6. "Where Dead People Walk": Fifty Years of Archives to Q'eros, PeruHolly Wissler7. Audiovisual Archives: Bridging Past and FutureJudith Gray8. Archives, Repatriation, and the Challenges AheadAnthony Seeger9. Returning Voices: Repatriation as Shared Listening ExperiencesBrian Diettrich10. "Boulders, Fighting on the Plain": A World-War-One-Era Song Repatriated and Remembered in Western TanzaniaFrank Gunderson11. "We Want Our Voices Back": Ethical Dilemmas in the Repatriation of RecordingsGrace Koch12. Sharing John Blacking: Recontextualizing Children's Music and Reimagining Musical Instruments in the Repatriation of a Historical CollectionAndrea Emberly and Jennifer C. Post13. Autism Doesn't Speak, People Do: Musical Thinking, Chat Messaging, and Autistic RepatriationMichael B. Bakan14. Musical Repatriation as MethodMichael Iyanaga15. Teachers as Agents of the Repatriation of Music and Cultural HeritagePatricia Shehan Campbell and J. Christopher Roberts16. "Each in Our Own Village": Creating Sustainable Interactions between Custodian Communities and ArchivesCatherine Ingram17. Radio Afghanistan Archive Project: Averting Repatriation, Building CapacityHiromi Lorraine Sakata, Laurel Sercombe, and John Vallier18. Bringing Radio Haiti Home: The Digital Archive as Devoir de MémoireCraig Breaden and Laura Wagner19. Strategies for Cultural Repatriation: Bali 1928 Music Recordings and 1930s FilmsEdward Herbst20. Cinematic Journeys to the Source: Musical Repatriation to Africa in FilmLisa Osunleti Beckley-Roberts21. "Pour préserver la mémoire": Algerian Sha'b? Musicians as Repatriated Subjects and Agents of RepatriationChristopher Orr22. Repatriating an Egyptian Modernity: Transcriptions and the Rise of Coptic Women's Song ActivismCarolyn M. Ramzy23. Memory, Trauma, and the Politics of Repatriating Bikindi's Music in the Aftermath of the Rwandan GenocideJason McCoy24. New Folk Music as Attempted Repatriation in RomaniaMaurice Mengel25. The Politics of Repatriating Civil War Brass MusicElizabeth Whittenburg Ozment26. Radio Archives and the Art of PersuasionCarlos Odria27. The Banning of Samoa's Repatriated Mau SongsRichard Moyle28. Bells in the Cultural Soundscape: Nazi-Era Plunder, Repatriation, and CampanologyCarla Shapreau29. Digital Repatriation: Copyright Policies, Fair Use, and EthicsAlex Perullo30. Mountain Highs, Valley Lows: Institutional Archiving of Gospel Music in the Twenty-first CenturyBirgitta Johnson31. "The Songs Are Alive": Bringing Frances Densmore's Recordings Back Home to Ojibwe CountryLyz Jaakola and Timothy B. Powell32. Moving Songs: Repatriating Audiovisual Recordings of Aboriginal Australian Dance and Song (Kimberley Region, Northwestern Australia)Sally Treloyn, Matthew Dembal Martin, and Rona Googninda Charles33. After the Archive: An Archaeology of Bosnian VoicesPeter McMurray34. Reclaiming Ownership of the Indigenous Voice: The Hopi Music Repatriation ProjectTrevor Reed35. Yolngu Music, Indigenous Knowledge Centres, and the Emergence of Archives as Contact ZonesPeter G. Toner36. Traditional Re-Appropriation: Modes of Access and Digitization in Irish Traditional MusicBret Woods37. Claiming Ka Mate: M?ori Cultural Property and the Nation's StakeLauren E. Sweetman and Kirsten Zemke38. Repatriation and Decolonization: Thoughts on Ownership, Access, and ControlRobin R. R. GrayIndex
