SONIETHIO · SONIETHIO. SONIC ETHNOGRAPHIES, ITALIAN COLONIALISM, AND DIGNITY RESTITUTIONS
„Хоризонт Европа“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“
- Период
- 2023-09-01 → 2026-08-31
- Финансиране от ЕС
- 269 413 €
- Участници
- 4
- Схема
- HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-GF
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Накратко на български
Звуковите записи на песни от периода на италианската окупация в Етиопия (1936-1941 г.) се събират в нов архив за анализ. Това помага да се разбере ролята на звука в колониалното наследство и да се възстанови достойнството на засегнатите култури.
Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.
Резултати накратко
SONIETHIO. SONIC ETHNOGRAPHIES, ITALIAN COLONIALISM, AND DIGNITY RESTITUTIONS
The project deals primarily with the history of Italian occupation of Ethiopia (1936-41) and its durable effects on cultural heritage. More specifically, the project aims at focusing on a collection of sounds and songs carried out by the Italian military and media organisations in the timeframe of 1938-39. More than 200 songs were recorded at that time. However, no archive had the possibility to collect and preserve such documentation. Therefore, the first main goal of the project is to build again such archive and make it available for research and discussions. Furthermore, the project aims at developing a collective investigation on the role of such archive both for the Ethiopian cultural heritage and for the Italian colonial legacy. For this goal, collective listening sessions and public discussions will be organized and held in Ethiopia. The concept of dignity restitution will be therefore implemented and discussed, as the main goal is to use the archive to activate a broader reflection on colonial entanglements. From the perspective of the sound studies research, the project aims to use the sound archives collected during the Italian occupation in Ethiopia in order to 1) conduct extensive field research within a participatory approach; 2) analyse the role of sounds in creating and conserving a colonial heritage; 3) implement a historical analysis of the azmari tradition through an intergenerational perspective; 4) develop an evaluation of the dignity takings and the activities of dignity restitutions that can be implemented; 5) introducing a reflection of the role of sounds in the memory of the colonial past within the Italian context.
Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз
Цел на проекта
The project aims to investigate the role of music and songs in shaping and chronicle cultural encounters within the context of the second Italo-Ethiopian war, here intended as a period of five years including both the invasion of Ethiopia and its military occupation (1936-1941). Therefore, collections of sound archives and ethnographies from that period will be used as prompt to implement a participative research on the role of these cultural productions in the development of performances, personal and collective expressions, social changes. As part of the fascist project of occupation, the Italian military and political leaders as well as scholars and civilians based in Ethiopia showed interest in Ethiopian culture, and specifically in local music. Like many aspects of Italian colonialism, such interest was twofold. On the one hand, Italians understood that music was a form of expression that escaped their control, therefore they persecuted and killed many azmari musicians and other musicians, in particular in 1937, within the infamous reprisal. On the other hand, both musical instruments and sounds were collected. In particular, sound records in the form of 78rpm vinyls were produced, intended for both institutional archive in Italy and commercial distribution. As a result, a significant archive of records as well as an official monography on Ethiopian music in Italian were released within a short period of time. The project aims to deeply analyse the sound collections and the published book in order to: 1) reconstruct both the historical and cultural background in which the collections emerged; 2) compare the material with later features of cultural production; 3) develop a project of restitution of the collections, based on the concept of dignity restitutions, that can make it relevant for local communities.
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
Участници
Връзки
- Виж в CORDIS
- DOI: 10.3030/101064878
- https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e51df3e4ec&appId=PPGMS
Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз