Ganuses, W.G and Sullivan, S (2025) 'The power of praising bees - acoustic pasts, echoed futures: auralgraph from !Huidi-ǁgams, Omaruru, 1954.' Doek! A Literary Magazine from Namibia, 15.
Abstract
When do we listen as we hear? Can we glimpse history while listening? In Acoustic Pasts, Echoed Futures, a loose series curating recordings from the Basler Afrika Bibliographien Archives, the reader is invited to listen to historical recordings—speech, song, music, natural sound, or noise—to tease the ear, move the soul or body, and bear witness to the futures of past worlds. The echoes of ‘pastness’ are convergences of the oral, the sense of hearing, and technology. Past aural worlds—compressed and mediated on wax cylinders, magnetic and other tapes or records in mp3 or WAV formats—provide sonic tracks, cracks and soundscapes, voiced anger, scintillating laughter, and raptured dancing.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Note: | The article is available to read at the link above. |
| Divisions: | School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Sep 2025 17:36 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Sep 2025 17:36 |
| URN: | https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/17310 |
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