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About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction. Noisy Memory and Family Gifts
- Chapter One. Berea, Kentucky: Learning to Listen
- Chapter Two. Berea Projects: American Winter, Rawhead and Bloodybones
- Chapter Three. Junction City, Ohio: Silent City
- Chapter Four. Chicago, Illinois: The Star-Faced One
- Chapter Five. Shawnee, Ohio: Listening to Community
- Chapter Six. Performing Shawnee, Ohio
- Chapter Seven. Trappist, Kentucky: Words and Silences
- Chapter Eight. Home: The Workbench
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Discography and Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index