Dossier “Cultural heritage, music, and media”
Dossier “Cultural heritage, music, and media”
Invited editors: Amílcar Almeida Bezerra (UFPE) e Luiz Henrique Assis Garcia (UFMG)
Reproducibility and technical mediation have transformed our relationships with sound by making it 'objectifiable.' One of the possibilities opened by recording was its use for documentary recording of cultural expressions. This avenue gained momentum with the possibility of recording testimonies related to historical events, affecting the construction of memory and the way to narrate History, and stories, through museums and collections. Discussing recorded sound and popular music as objects of the operations of heritage and musealization necessarily involves examining their production as artifacts that are repositories of attributes and social representation in permanent re-elaboration. In this regard, an important insight is provided by Sterne's work (2003), especially as it excavates the cultural history of the link between life-death and past-present through the first sound recordings and the expectations produced about them.
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