Access to Waxes The Collections from the Arab World of the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv

Access to Waxes
The Collections from the Arab World of the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Digitization and Open Access Publication

• the world of music (new series) special issue, vol. 2-202
• ISBN 978-3-86135-870-1
• 244 pp.
• 15 x 22 cm
• EUR 45,00 (UVP)
• Birgit Abels (editor), Nadia Bahra, Lando Kirchmair, Matthias Pasdzierny & Albrecht Wiedmann (eds.)

This publication is a result of the research project ‘Access to Waxes – The Arab Collections of the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Digitization’, conducted by AGYA members Prof. Dr. Nadia Bahra, Prof. Dr. Lando Kirchmair, and Prof. Dr. Matthias Pasdzierny. This project was conducted by the AGYA Working Group Common Heritage & Common Challenges, and funded by the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA). AGYA is mainly supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).Disclaimer: The authors remain solely responsible for the content provided in this publication, which does not reflect the positions of AGYA or any of its funding partners.

Content:

• Nadia Bahra, Lando Kirchmair, Matthias Pasdzierny & Albrecht Wiedmann:
  Access to Waxes – The Collections from the Arab World of the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv: Between Digitization, “Repatriation,” and Online Publication
• Salwa El-Shawan, Castelo-Branco:
  Interrogating “Access to Waxes” – Introductory Remarks on the Collections from the Arab World of the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv
• Susanne Ziegler:
  The Collections of Music from the Arab World in the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv
• Jean Lambert:
  A Historical Glimpse of Music in Yemen in the 1930s: A First Approach to the Cylinders Recorded by Hans Helfritz
• Matthias Pasdzierny:
  Whom to Remember – How to Return? Brigitte Schiffer, the Voices of Siwa and the Entangled History of the Berlin School of Ethnomusicology
• Ruth F. Davis:
  From Wax Cylinder to Metal Disc: Transplanting Robert Lachmann’s “OrientalMusic” Project from Berlin to Jerusalem on the Eve of World War II
• Dörte Schmidt:
  Data Diplomacy: “Access to Waxes” and the Need for Negotiating Spaces
• Souheir I. Nadde:
  The Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv Collections: Legal framework from Arab Countries Perspective
• Christian Czychowski, Lea Riechers:
  Copyright issues: Sound Recordings from German Lea Riechers Prisoner of War Camps of World War I and World War II
• Lando Kirchmair:
  Open Access Publication of the Historical Sound Recordings of the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv: Arguments from Public International Law and Cultural Ethics
• Mèhèza Kalibani:
  Prolegomena to the Study of Historical Sound Recordings from Colonial Contexts