Author: Anthony Seeger
Shubha Chaudhuri/
Publisher: Seagull Books
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 300
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170462231
Description
This unique book is based on a workshop for an international group of administrators of research based archives held near New Delhi in December 1999, the aim of which was to bring together archivists from industrializing countries which have a relatively recent history of audiovisual archives, principally from the Southern Hemisphere; to take concerns of audiovisual archives outside the national and regional boundaries that so often define them; and to focus on audiovisual archives that document musical and folklore traditions or ethnomusicology.
Pooling the experience of participants from Austria, Australia, China, Cuba, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Peru, The Philippines, South Africa, Sudan, and the United States, the volume will be of interest to cultural workers both as an introductory textbook in ethnomusicology courses and as a book for specialists.
The book begins with a theoretical introduction, including general observations on archives, a discussion of the principal points in the participant papers, a description of the workshop itself, and how the process of the workshop has been transformed into this volume. Section One deals with archive structure and operations, including a chapter on recording technology which begins with a paper by the world-renowned expert in technology for audiovisual archives, Dr Dietrich Schuler, Director of the Vienna Phonogramm-Archiv, Austria, the oldest such archive in the world; and one on issues of copy-right and ethics by Grace Koch. Section Two consists of the participants papers. The volume also includes useful material such sample agreement forms, a bibliography of major resources on audiovisual archives, and a website list of the most important professional organizations and archive sites.
Dr Dietrich Schuller (Vienna, Austria), Don Niles (Papua New Guinea), Alex Huerta (Peru), Ali Al-Daw (Sudan), Maxwell Addo (Ghana), Marialita Tamanio-Yraola (Philippines), To Ngoc Thanh (Vietnam), Valmont Layne (South Africa), Endo Suanda (Indonesia) Gert-Matthias Wegner (Nepal), J Lawrence Witzleben and Tsui Ying-Fai (China), Olavo Alen (Cuba), Grace Koch (Australia).
Contents
Introduction
Contributors
SECTION I: WORKSHOPS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Archives and the Future
Technology for the Future
Dietrich Schuller
Rights, Intellectual Property and Archives Today
SECTION II: ARCHIVES IN INDUSTRIALIZING COUNTRIES AT THE DAWN OF THE MILLENNIUM-PAPERS AND PROPOSALS
Audiovisual Archives in Ghana
Maxwell Agyei Addo
The Music Archives at the CIDMUC and their Influence on the Musical Culture of Cuba
Olavo Alen Rodriquez
How Do You Turn an House into an Archive? Air Conditioning and Tape Storage in a Hot and Humid Environment
Shubha Chaudhuri
A Call for an International Archival Network (IAN)
Ali Ibrahim al-Daw
Listening to the Andes
Victor Alexander Huerta-Mercado Tenorio
Challenges to a Small Ethnographic Archive
Grace Koch
The Sound Archive at the District Six Museum: A Work in Progress
Valmont Layne
Reclaiming the Past: The Value of Recordings to a National Cultural Heritage
Don Niles
The Challenge of Developing a Cultural Audiovisual Archive in Indonesia
Endo Suanda
University of Philippines Centre for Ethnomusicology
Marialita Tamanio-Yraola
Archives of Collected Materials of Folk and Traditional Music: The Case of Vietnam
To Ngoc Thanh
Documenting Nepalese Musical Traditions
Gert-Matthias Wegner
Archiving Chinese Music Materials at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
J Lawrence Witzleben with Tsui Ying-Fai
APPENDIX A
Final Workshop Documents
APPENDIX B
The First Debate: Archivists Versus Administrators
APPENDIX C
Debate Between Performers, Researchers and Archivists
Bibliography
Websites