Playing the Archive: Archives (and Their Others) in the Aural City (#8)

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Playing the Archive

Dr. Sydney Hutchinson

10 episodes

3 days ago

Ethnomusicologists Sydney Hutchinson and Hannah Judd dive into experimental archival research with interviews, radio plays, & more. Part of the Second World Music project (Humboldt University Berlin & Ethnological Museum).

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Playing the Archive: Archives (and Their Others) in the Aural City (#8)

Playing the Archive

34 minutes 3 seconds

2 months ago

Playing the Archive: Archives (and Their Others) in the Aural City (#8)

Which sounds do archives keep, and which do they leave out? Do we, the archivists and researchers, create archives, or do the archives create us? In this episode, Sydney Hutchinson and Natalia Neira Nieto speak with sound scholar Alejandro Madrid about his latest book The Archive and the Aural City. Alejandro reflects on how archives in Mexico and Germany are shaped—how materials are chosen, what they reveal, and how they transform over time. The conversation also touches on themes of collective belonging, national agendas, and his current book project on Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez.In Playing the Archive, ethnomusicologist Sydney Hutchinson dives into experimental archival research with interviews, radio plays, & more. This podcast is a part of the Second World Music project. To learn more, visit http://secondworldmusic.wordpress.com.Playing the Archive © 2025 by Sydney Hutchinson/Second World Music is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International