Noisy memory recording sound, performing archives / Brian Harnetty.

Author/creator Harnetty, Brian
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2025]
Description190 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from JSTOR University of North Carolina Press Publisher Collection (Backlist)
Subjects

Contents Noisy memory and family gifts -- Berea, Kentucky : learning to listen -- Berea projects : American Winter, Rawhead and Bloodybones -- Junction City, Ohio : Silent City -- Chicago, Illinois : The Star-Faced One -- Shawnee, Ohio : Listening to Community -- Performing Shawnee, Ohio -- Trappist, Kentucky : Words and Silences -- Home : The Workbench.
Abstract "Composer and sound artist Brian Harnetty explores the remarkable everyday stories of sound recordings and shows us a new way to listen to the past. From murder ballads and oral histories in Appalachian Ohio, to the Afrofuturistic music of Sun Ra in Chicago, to the thoughts of monk and writer Thomas Merton in Kentucky captured on audiotape, Harnetty reveals rich historical contexts of the recordings, and introduces us to people and places connected to them. The result is a new, interdisciplinary approach to sound archives, listening, creative practice, and community engagement. Drawing upon his two-decade career as an artist and researcher, Harnetty builds upon and expands the tradition of composers and artists writing about their work. A unique combination of ethnography, memoir, philosophical text, and creative process book, Noisy Memory presents both scholarly and creative approaches to ethically working with sound archives"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 181-183) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2025013866
ISBN9781469691336 (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN9781469691343 (paperback ; alk. paper)
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