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Sound in the archive: Media materials as archives of narrative

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2021

Seth Ellis
Seth Ellis*
Affiliation:
Senior Lecturer, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, 124 Grey Street, South Brisbane, 4101QueenslandAustralia Email: seth.ellis@griffith.edu.au
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Abstract

This paper describes and evaluates research undertaken by the author at the State Library of Queensland, in the collection, cataloguing, and presentation of audiovisual materials—specifically, sound materials beyond oral history and performance. It suggests that strategies drawn from transcription can make the sounds of the past more evident in digitised catalogues, and thus can make those sounds themselves more accessible to the public. In doing so it offers a different affordance of the archive to public experience: not just information about the past, but the affective impact of the past.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , July 2021 , pp. 78 - 83
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of ARLIS

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