Tracing Sound Documents

Kempf, Wolfgang; Lawson Burke, Mary

dc.contributor.author	Kempf, Wolfgang
dc.contributor.author	Lawson Burke, Mary
dc.date.accessioned	2026-08-06T08:36:58Z
dc.date.available	2026-08-06T08:36:58Z
dc.date.issued	2026	de
dc.identifier.uri	https://doi.org/10.17875/gup2026-3076
dc.relation.sponsordetails	Project No. 428888038	de
dc.format.extent	316	de
dc.format.medium	Print	de
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Göttinger Reihe zur Ethnologie - Göttingen Series in Social and Cultural Anthropology	de
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.de
dc.subject.ddc	300
dc.subject.other	OAPEN	de
dc.title	Tracing Sound Documents	de
dc.title.alternative	Assemblages of a Tape Collection from Kiribati	de
dc.type	monograph	de
dc.price.print	55,00
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:gbv:7-isbn-978-3-86395-701-8-8
dc.description.print	Softcover, 17x24	de
dc.subject.division	peerReviewed	de
dc.relation.isbn-13	978-3-86395-701-8
dc.identifier.articlenumber	8102543	de
dc.identifier.intern	isbn-978-3-86395-701-8	de
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume	031	de
dc.subject.bisac	SOC002010
dc.subject.vlb	750
dc.subject.bic	J
dc.description.abstracteng	In 1963–64, Gerd and Sigrid Koch recorded songs and dance chants on twelve reels of tape across three atolls of the southern Gilbert Archipelago — present-day Kiribati. For decades, the more than 220 recordings lay unheard in the sound archive of the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin. The digitization of the tapes and their accompanying ethnographic documentation made the collection newly accessible and opened the ground for the scholarly engagement this book pursues: close ethnomusicological analysis of songs and dance chants, a systematic account of musical genres in Kiribati, and an assemblage perspective that approaches the collection not as a closed archive, but as an open, mutable configuration of heterogeneous actors, materials, and practices. Two assemblages take center stage. The first reconstructs the formation of the collection as a configuration of distributed agency, drawing on Koch’s field notes, documentation, and correspondence as well as the disregarded spoken passages of selected tapes, untranscribed until now. I-Kiribati actors actively shaped the recording process through performances, repertoire choices, and commentary. The second emerged from consultations held in 2022 in the meeting houses of communities on Onotoa, Nonouti, and Tabiteuea, where members of the source communities reassembled the historical sound documents according to their own criteria. The Nonouti selections presented here reveal strong preferences for identity-marking dance chants alongside significant breaks in the transmission of older chant genres. As far as is currently known, this is one of the oldest collections of field recordings of Kiribati music. It has since been repatriated to the National Museum Te Umwanibong.	de
dc.subject.eng	creation myth	de
dc.subject.eng	local history	de
dc.subject.eng	ethnography	de
dc.notes.vlb-print	lieferbar
dc.intern.doi	10.17875/gup2026-3076	de
dc.relation.sponsorship	Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft	de
dc.identifier.purl	http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?univerlag-isbn-978-3-86395-701-8
dc.format.chapters	-	de
dc.intern.asin	3863957016
dc.subject.thema	J

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