Playing the Archive
Dr. Sydney Hutchinson
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Playing the Archive: Hearing in Red and Yellow (#11)
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and Germany reunified, the territory of the German Democratic Republic was absorbed into the capitalist West. People felt the West had won. But what if things had…
Playing the Archive: Spectral Sounds & Sonic Storytelling (#10)
Where do obsolete media go to die, and is there an afterlife for old tapes? In this Day of the Dead double feature, two sound artists explore lost sounds, spectral voices, trashed tapes, and…
Playing the Archive: Chinese Square Dance (#9)
Dancing in a public square - it's a typical feature of Chinese urban life known as "Guang Chang Wu," square dance. Promoted by Mao, transformed through daily practice, Chinese square dance has often…
Playing the Archive: Archives (and Their Others) in the Aural City (#8)
Which sounds do archives keep, and which do they leave out? Do we, the archivists and researchers, create archives, or do the archives create us? In this episode, Sydney Hutchinson and Natalia Neira…
Playing the Archive: Deaf Voices and Distant Listening (#7)
When musicologist Sarah Fuchs stumbled across a mysterious set of wax cylinder recordings from a Parisian school for the deaf, she had no idea how deep the archive would go. In this episode, she…
Playing the Archive: Southern Sounds, Southern Stories (#6)
Have you ever tried to listen to the past? Sound artist and ethnographer Keyania Campbell has. In her research on the soundscapes of pre-Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, she recreates everyday…
Playing the Archive: The Viral and the Archival (#5)
Sounds are usually momentary. They're there, and then they're forgotten. Every day, we access new sounds on Tiktok or Youtube and some of them go viral - but who remembers them a month, a year, or a…
Playing the Archive: Gina Knapp's Slice of Life (#4)
You thought group projects in school were tricky? Try writing a telenovela with 900 collaborators!In this episode we talk with visual anthropologist Gina Knapp about how she worked together with…
S1E3 Playing the Archive: Orion, Orion, Oh My! (#3)
If you don't know the Orion, what are you waiting for? You're missing out on a hot trend (of the summer of 1963 in East Germany)!In our first episode, we explored the story of the Lipsi, a new dance…
Playing the Archive: I Will Not Weep (#2)
European colonists derided them as "headhunters." Christian missionaries forbade them from practicing traditional music and dance. The Indian army continues to target them. But the Naga people of…
Playing the Archive: Lipsi Daisy! (#1)
How should socialist youth dance? How can social dance be more socialist? These questions may not be keeping YOU up at night, but things might look differently if you were an East German cultural…
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