Playing the Archive

Playing the Archive
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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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Explores topics such as the intersection of dance and socialism, the reconstruction of historical performance practices, and cross-cultural influences with episodes covering the Lipsi dance phenomenon and its sociopolitical context in East Germany.

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).

Sounds are usually momentary. They’re there, and then they’re forgotten. Every day, we access new sounds on Tiktok or Youtube and some of them go viral – but who remembers them a month, a year, or a decade later? Archives preserve sounds of the past, but they become hard to access, buried under data protection, privacy, and heritage laws. How will future anthropologists know what 2025 sounded like?
In Playing the Archive, ethnomusicologists Sydney Hutchinson and Hannah Judd dive 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
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