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Early Sound Archiving and the Making of Scientific Resources (2023)

Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 114
Issue: 2
Pages: 373-379
Publication date: 2023
Language: English

DOI: 10.1086/724797

URI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/724797

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Material culture Science and technology, relationships Supply networks; logistics; supply chain economics Scientific apparatus and instruments Libraries and archives Sound recordings 20th century, early Germany

This essay focuses on the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv, established in 1900, and its subsequent commitment to collecting music, voices, and sonic evidence from all over the world. But members of the archive managed to embrace the world as a resource in another respect as well: the daily production of cylinder records required large quantities of wax and various other materials that depended on a global system of supply and considerable exploitation of nature. The essay shows that the manufacture of the cylinders resonated with the research agendas developed at the Phonogramm-Archiv during the eras of the German Empire, World War I, German colonialism, and the Weimar Republic.

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Article Viktoria Tkaczyk; Christine von Oertzen (2023) Introduction: Reconsidering the Resources of Epistemic Tools. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 359-365). unapi

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