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Abstract degli interventi

Anthony Seeger

Your archive has wonderful and unique materials. How do you get people to use it?

Everyone working in an archive wonders “How do we get people to use the wonderful collections we are spending our lives enhancing, protecting, and keeping available for those who consult them?”  This presentation will discuss different approaches to bringing researchers, children, and the general public to archival collections. The presenter has directed two university archives, a record company, and served as an advisor to archives in six countries. There are different ways to bring people to an archive depending on the materials, the budget, the education system, and above all on rights the archive has to ethically disseminate its collections. This presentation will describe some ways this has been and might be done.  Others present will be invited to suggest different ideas for discussion.

Luis Gimenez Amoros

Digital return and creative practices through the African sound archive in Africa and beyond.

The International Library of African Music (ILAM) is located in South Africa and it is the largest sound archive of African music in the continent. From the 1920s to the 1970s, Hugh Tracey, his son, Andrew, and numerous “others” recorded more than fourteen thousand songs from fifteen countries in sub-Saharan Africa. ILAM covers a wide range of African musical styles – ranging from South Africa to Sudan. Since 2011, the author has conducted repatriation and revitalization projects of ILAM’s recordings in southern Africa (Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique and South Africa) resulting in multiple publications (peer review articles, albums and documentaries) including his book ‘Tracing the mbira sound archive in Zimbabwe’ published by Routledge in 2018. This lecture examines the digital return of ILAM´s mbira sound archive through the author, African scholars, and mbira teachers in southern Africa. Particularly, this type of revitalization project examines the scholarly and collaborative outcomes from the interaction between ILAM (as a hub for African music studies) and the African academia during the revitalization project. In the second part of this lecture, there will be a reconsideration on how the cultural diversity of ILAM’s recordings transcend the African continent becoming a source of global interaction with multiple actors (musicians, migrant communities, DJs, music archivists, etc.) in European cities.

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