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Exzentrische Hermeneutik und die Artikulation von Geschichte im kolonialen Klangarchiv

Author(s): Fourie, William

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In this article, I consider a spectre of coloniality which lingers around the recognition of the authority of subjects of the archive as the authors of historical meaning. In doing so, I situate this research in scholarship concerned with the legacies of colonial sound archives and argue for a move beyond the prevalent methodology of listening to taking seriously enunciation from the colonial margin. I argue that thinking about the inter-material vibrational force of a recording from the International Library for African Music can engender a form of ex-centric hermeneutics as a mode of decolonial historiographical interpretation that challenges the colonial thinning out of the sound recording first engendered by the recording practices used to construct the colonial sound archive.

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Fourie, William: Exzentrische Hermeneutik und die Artikulation von Geschichte im kolonialen Klangarchiv. In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, Jg. 16 (2024), Nr. 2, S. 68-80. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/23155.
@ARTICLE{Fourie2024,
 author = {Fourie, William},
 title = {Exzentrische Hermeneutik und die Artikulation von Geschichte im kolonialen Klangarchiv},
 year = 2024,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/23155}",
 volume = 16,
 address = {Bielefeld},
 journal = {Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft},
 number = 2,
 pages = {68--80},
}
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