Researchers, communities, institutions and sound recordings (2003): Recent submissions
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Sound recordings as maruy among the Aborigines of the Daly region of north west Australia
Published 2004-01-01This paper reflects on a set of anxieties concerning the relationship between living traditions of song and dance and the body of audio recordings of these traditions that have been generated in the course of my research. ...Open AccessConference paper -
The politics of context: issues for law, researchers and the creation of databases
Published 2004-01-01Field recordings pose many dilemmas for intellectual property law, researchers, and the creation of databases containing Indigenous knowledge. Challenges arise because these field recordings in tangible form undergo constant ...Open AccessConference paper -
Introduction: The need for a Pacific languages archive
Published 2004-01-01Why do we need an archive of sound recordings of the languages (and music, oral literature, etc.) of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Islands? The short answer is simple: To preserve for posterity as rich as possible ...Open AccessConference paper -
Challenges in the repatriation of historic recordings to Papua New Guinea
Published 2004-01-01For over one hundred years, visitors to Papua New Guinea have been making recordings of music in our country. Prior to independence in 1975, many of these recordings ended up in archives in the countries of their collectors, ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Critical choices, critical decisions: sound archiving and changing technology
Published 2004-01-01In a relatively short period of time sound archivists have had to come to terms with some fundamental paradigm shifts in the way they approach sound archiving. For example, in December 1997, in response to the first ...Open AccessConference paper