Kulturvergleichendes Hören. Der Phonograph, das Fremde und die Geburtsstunde der Musikethnologie

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Subject according curriculum

Elective subject

Teachers

Prof. Frank Böhme

Semester

Wintersemester 2023/2024

Scope

Thursday 11:30 to13:00

Room

Multimediahörsaal (ELA 1)

Duration

2 Semesterwochenstunden

Description

The history of musical reproduction technology began in 1877 with the invention of the phonograph, followed ten years later by the gramophone record. Up to this point, the music of other cultures could only be experienced either by traveling to the countries (which was only possible for very few people), by guests coming to the West from afar (which was just as rare) or by relying on transcriptions in Western notation (which rarely came close to the original). At the end of the 19th century, scientific expeditions, commercial travelers or missionaries were equipped with a phonograph and entrusted with the task of recording music in foreign countries and sending it to Berlin or Vienna. Institutions were quickly set up there to deal with this methodically and systematically. For the first time, it was now possible to get an idea of the diversity of music on a large scale. In the process, the participants developed the subject of comparative musicology.
The large-scale collecting mania developed in parallel with colonialism, which raises the question of how the auditory material relates to it. Many historical sound examples from the phonogram archives will be heard.

However, these archives are also the focus of the examination of the colonial legacy. Whether in Africa, Asia or in prisoner-of-war camps during the First World War, the recordings force us to think anew about the collections and their presentation.

Literature

Will be provided

Credits

2 Creditpoints

Comments

Please register by e-mail: Frank.Boehme@HfMT-Hamburg.de

Modules

Wahlmodul freie Wahl (alle Studiengänge), Wahlmodul Lehramt, Studium generale Wahlmodul Master