Aural History: Essays on Recorded Sound

These essays present a review of issues for sounds and audio-visual archivists and other custodians of time-based media. They pay attention to the variety of institutional holdings and collections, as well as to the ways in which sound recordings are being used in academic and creative spheres.

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This collection of essays presents a stimulating review of current professional issues for sounds and audio-visual archivists and other custodians of time-based media. The book pays particular attention to the variety of institutional holdings and collections, as well as to the numerous and innovative ways in which sound recordings are being used in academic and creative spheres. The essays illustrate the wide variety of subject matters and use of sound recordings encountered by the modern archivist. Music, oral history, broadcasts, performance art and wildlife sound are assessed and analyzed through a number of different approaches. Both the informed non-specialist and the professional archivist should find useful material in this text, with audio visual archives increasingly responding to present their rich holdings to new and established audiences.