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Early Sound Archiving and the Making of Scientific Resources.

Authors :
Tkaczyk, Viktoria
Source :
Isis: A Journal of the History of Science in Society; Jun2023, Vol. 114 Issue 2, p373-379, 7p, 1 Black and White Photograph
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

This essay focuses on the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv, established in 1900, and its subsequent commitment to collecting music, voices, and sonic evidence from all over the world. But members of the archive managed to embrace the world as a resource in another respect as well: the daily production of cylinder records required large quantities of wax and various other materials that depended on a global system of supply and considerable exploitation of nature. The essay shows that the manufacture of the cylinders resonated with the research agendas developed at the Phonogramm-Archiv during the eras of the German Empire, World War I, German colonialism, and the Weimar Republic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00211753
Volume :
114
Issue :
2
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Isis: A Journal of the History of Science in Society
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
163764207
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1086/724797