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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Noisy Memory: Recording Sound, Performing Archives

Noisy Memory: Recording Sound, Performing Archives

Harnetty, Brian

Hardcover

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesMusic ReferenceWorld Music

ISBN10: 1469691337
ISBN13: 9781469691336
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: Aug 26 2025
Pages: 204
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 recorded thoughts of monk and writer Thomas Merton in Kentucky, Harnetty reveals rich historical contexts of the recordings and introduces us to the people and places connected to them. The result is a new, interdisciplinary approach to sound archives, listening, creative practice, and community engagement.

Drawing on 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 meditation on the creative process, Noisy Memory presents both scholarly and innovative approaches to ethically working with sound archives.

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