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Call and Response. Robert Lachmanns orientalistisches Archiv und Jumana Mannas dekoloniale Kritik

Author(s): John, Rebecca Hanna

Abstract

The radio program Oriental Music by German-Jewish ethnomusicologist Robert Lachmann, who emigrated to Palestine in 1935 and set up an archive of non-European music at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is the starting point for the cinematic-musical research journey by Palestinian artist Jumana Manna. This article explores both, the problems in Lachmann’s orientalist research and the potential that his idea of music as a means of rapproachment holds. Lachmann’s voice from the archive, which Manna excavates along with a multitude of Palestinian musical traditions that he had documented in the 1930s, is understood here as a call to which Manna, being critical of Orientalism, reacts with a polyphonic response.

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John, Rebecca Hanna: Call and Response. Robert Lachmanns orientalistisches Archiv und Jumana Mannas dekoloniale Kritik. In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, Jg. 16 (2024), Nr. 2, S. 43-54. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/23153.
@ARTICLE{John2024,
 author = {John, Rebecca Hanna},
 title = {Call and Response. Robert Lachmanns orientalistisches Archiv und Jumana Mannas dekoloniale Kritik},
 year = 2024,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/23153}",
 volume = 16,
 address = {Bielefeld},
 journal = {Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft},
 number = 2,
 pages = {43--54},
}
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