Knowing by Ear: Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915-1918) by Hoffmann, Anette

Knowing by Ear: Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915-1918)

During World War I, thousands of young African men conscripted to fight for France and Britain were...
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Author: Anette Hoffmann
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Knowing by Ear: Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915-1918) by Hoffmann, Anette

Knowing by Ear: Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915-1918)

$91.55

Knowing by Ear: Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915-1918)

$91.55
Author: Anette Hoffmann
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Anette Hoffmann
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 03/29/2024
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 5.00h x 5.70w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781478030027

About the Author
Anette Hoffmann is a Senior Researcher at the University of Cologne's Institute for African Studies and Egyptology. She is the author of Listening to Colonial History: Echoes of Coercive Knowledge Production in Historical Sound Recordings from Southern Africa.

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