Knowing by Ear
Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915-1918)
1st Edition
Published on 23. February 2024
216 pages
978-1-4780-5902-8 (ISBN)
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Anette Hoffmann examines the archive of stories and songs by WWI African POWs held in Germany to gain new understandings of extractive knowledge production and the lived experience of colonialism.
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Anette Hoffmann
Knowing by Ear
Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915-1918)
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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.
Content
Note on Sound Recordings ix
Prologue: Catchers of the Living 1
Fragment 1. Samba Diallo: "The War of the Whites" / "Catcher of the Living"
Introduction: Listening to Acoustic Fragments 11
Fragment II. Jámafáda: "The War is Horrible"
1. Abdoulay Niang: Voice, Race, and the Suspension of Communication in Linguistic Recordings 23
Fragment III. Asmani Ben Ahmad: "Once Upon a Time"
2. Mohamed Nur: Traces in Archives, Linguistics Texts, and Museums in Germany 66
Fragment IV. Josef Ntwanumbi: "We are Initiates"
3. Albert Kudjabo and Stephan Bischoff: Mysterious Sounds, Opaque Languages and Otherworldly Voices 101
Fragment V. Mamadou Gregoire: "The Sea Requests Fish from the Rivers"
Afterword: Knowing by Ear 147
Acknowledgments 157
Notes 161
References 183
Index 201
Prologue: Catchers of the Living 1
Fragment 1. Samba Diallo: "The War of the Whites" / "Catcher of the Living"
Introduction: Listening to Acoustic Fragments 11
Fragment II. Jámafáda: "The War is Horrible"
1. Abdoulay Niang: Voice, Race, and the Suspension of Communication in Linguistic Recordings 23
Fragment III. Asmani Ben Ahmad: "Once Upon a Time"
2. Mohamed Nur: Traces in Archives, Linguistics Texts, and Museums in Germany 66
Fragment IV. Josef Ntwanumbi: "We are Initiates"
3. Albert Kudjabo and Stephan Bischoff: Mysterious Sounds, Opaque Languages and Otherworldly Voices 101
Fragment V. Mamadou Gregoire: "The Sea Requests Fish from the Rivers"
Afterword: Knowing by Ear 147
Acknowledgments 157
Notes 161
References 183
Index 201
