Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0062208

Zusammenfassung

Since the introduction of phonography in the late 19th century linguists, anthropologists, musicologists and folklorists produced what are now historical recordings with non-European people. Collected to study and salvage foreign languages and cultural expressions, many collections were digitized in recent years. With few exceptions these acoustic files have rarely been made use of for the writing of historiographies. Often the (first) translation of historical recordings retrieves narratives, fragments of discourses, comments, critique, or accounts that are yet to be claimed as histo...