Mellem eksotisme og musiketnologi:Musikalske repræsentationer af Grønland og Indien i europæisk radio i mellemkrigstiden
In this article, I investigate how colonized cultures were presented to “home” radio audiences through sound (music, speech, sound montages) during the inter-war years. The focus is on how a small group of broadcasts containing musical representations of the colonies of Greenland and India afforded...
Published in: | Journal of Radio & Audio Media |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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2022
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Online Access: | https://pure.au.dk/portal/da/publications/between-exoticism-and-ethnomusicology(35437997-04d0-4712-9b6a-c7132d63cc5b).html https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2021.2019744 https://pure.au.dk/ws/files/335049711/Between_Exoticism_and_Ethnomusicology_Musical_Representations_of_Greenland_and_India_on_European_Interwar_Radio_Accepted_manuscript.pdf |
Summary: | In this article, I investigate how colonized cultures were presented to “home” radio audiences through sound (music, speech, sound montages) during the inter-war years. The focus is on how a small group of broadcasts containing musical representations of the colonies of Greenland and India afforded the imaginative work to Danish and British radio listeners in relation to the spatiality and otherness of distant peoples and locations. I suggest a typology of four modes of musical representation in broadcasts reaching from the European tradition of musical exoticism to the use of recordings of indigenous music. |
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