Knowing by Ear
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Knowing by Ear

Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915–1918)

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Knowing by Ear

Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915–1918)

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During World War I, thousands of young African men conscripted to fight for France and Britain were captured and held as prisoners of war in Germany, where their stories and songs were recorded and archived by German linguists. In Knowing by Ear, Anette Hoffmann demonstrates that listening to these acoustic recordings as historical sources, rather than linguistic samples, opens up possibilities for new historical perspectives and the formation of alternate archival practices and knowledge production. She foregrounds the archival presence of individual speakers and positions their recorded voices as responses to their experiences of colonialism, war, and the journey from Africa to Europe. By engaging with the recordings alongside written sources, photographs, and artworks depicting the speakers, Hoffmann personalizes speakers from present-day Senegal, Somalia, Togo, and Congo. Knowing by Ear includes transcriptions of numerous recordings of spoken and sung texts, revealing acoustic archives as significant yet under-researched sources for recovering the historical speaking positions of colonized subjects and listen to the acoustic echo of colonial knowledge production.

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Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2024
ISBN
9781478059028
Topic
History
Subtopic
African History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Note on Sound Recordings
  4. Gallery
  5. Prologue: Catchers of the Living: Fragment I. Samba Diallo: “The War Of The Whites” / “Catcher Of The Living”
  6. Introduction: Listening to Acoustic Fragments: Fragment ii. Jámafáda: “the War is Horrible”
  7. 1. Abdoulaye Niang: Voice, Race, and the Suspension of Communication in Linguistic Recordings: Fragment iii. Asmani Ben Ahmad: “Once Upon a Time”
  8. 2. Mohamed Nur: Traces in Archives, Linguistic Texts, and Museums in Germany: Fragment iv. Josef Ntwanumbi: “we are Initiates”
  9. 3. Albert Kudjabo and Stephan Bischoff: Mysterious Sounds, Opaque Languages, and Otherworldly Voices: Fragment V. Mamadou Gregoire: “The Sea Requests Fish from the Rivers”
  10. Afterword: Knowing by Ear
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. Notes
  13. References
  14. Index