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🎶 New Future Pasts Working Paper on repatriating 'Damara-Nama' music recordings made in Sesfontein #Namibia in 1999 by ethnomusicologist Emmanuelle Olivier, then digitised & archived by the #BritishLibrary Bath Spa University Sound Archive NCRST futurepasts.net/fpwp14-sulliva…

🎶 The paper documents the process of repatriation and permissions negotiations around sound recordings. It illustrates complexities that arise as different worlds and expectations intersect around #music, recordings, #archives and #rights ... [images shared with permission]

🎶 This work builds on prior music research, e.g. "Tasting the lost flute music of Sesfontein: histories, memories, possibilities" with W.S. Ganuses, E. Olivier & F. ǁHawaxab (2022) Linked here: futurepasts.net/fpwp10-sulliva…

🎶 "Recomposing the archive? On sound and (hi)story in Damara / ǂNūkhoe pasts, from Basel to west Namibia" with W.S. Ganuses, in Oral History (2021): jstor.org/stable/48670161

🎶 The film "The Music Returns to Kai-as" (2020): 52 min version here vimeo.com/486865709 30 min version here vimeo.com/565658576  #MemoryMapping #OralHistory #Displacement #Conservation #WestNamibia

🎶 Short #BritishLibrary Sound and Vision Blog here, documenting the process of returning digitised recordings to Sesfontein 💛 @GreatRiverSnake return to the source Radical Anthropology A. Sène Research in EnvHums at Bath Spa POLLEN ... blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-visi…

🎶 New Future Pasts blog documenting recent #music research & #repatriation work with the #BritishLibrary Sound Archive & the Nami-Daman Traditional Authority of n-w #Namibia NCRST @GreatRiverSnake return to the source Bath Spa University Radical Anthropology futurepasts.net/post/repatriat…

Important work #Hornkranz

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🎶 🐝 Happy to share A Bee Song, a new single made through a musical collaboration between Banco de Gaia and the Future Pasts research project in #Namibia 🐝 🎶 Arts and Humanities Research Council Bath Spa University POLLEN Conservation Namibia 🇳🇦 Research in EnvHums at Bath Spa Heritage at Bath Spa University CEP (Consortium of Environmental Philosophers) 🧵 > x.com/bancodegaia/st…

This has been several years in the making! So pleased that A Bee Song - a recomposition of a 1954 archived recorded song praising bees - can now be listened to - thanks to Banco de Gaia 🎶 🐝 Will be available on Bandcamp from next Friday. Details in 🧵below.

It's so wonderful to hear this from @GreatRiverSnake, who speaks Khoekhoegowab - the language A Bee Song is sung in; & who knows something of the contexts for |gais praise songs. Kai aios, dear ǁAres 🩷 🐝 Banco de Gaia Future Pasts

🎶 🐝 A Bee Song by Banco de Gaia and Future Pasts now has a video! Arts and Humanities Research Council Bath Spa University POLLEN Conservation Namibia 🇳🇦 Research in EnvHums at Bath Spa Heritage at Bath Spa University CEP (Consortium of Environmental Philosophers) > ➡️ youtu.be/I-HQAOANL20

I'd like to take a moment to celebrate Ruben !Nagu Sanib, one of the elders in north-west #Namibia I've worked with over the last 10 years, and from whom I've learned so much. Ruben sadly died on 7 June and I hear that he (alongside my friend Jan |Awiseb) was given a beautiful

☀️ It's been a long journey, but I can now share our 3 Journeys film! "Lands That History Forgot – Three Journeys with Nami-Daman Elders in North-west #Namibia" Future Pasts Etosha-Kunene Histories Bath Spa University POLLEN NCRST Arts and Humanities Research Council > 🎬 vimeo.com/906331479

☀️ A mega-🧵 with chapter links about #Etosha Pan to the #SkeletonCoast: #Conservation Histories, Policies & Practices in North-west #Namibia 🇳🇦 #OpenAccess, co-edited with Ute Dieckmann Universität zu Köln & Selma Lendelvo #MyUNAM Bath Spa University Etosha-Kunene Histories > openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647…

☀️New film! made through the Future Pasts & Etosha-Kunene Histories Histories Arts and Humanities Research Council projects. Watch “ǂNūkhoe Xûn / Damara Material Culture” led by the Hoanib Culture Group in north-west #Namibia vimeo.com/1035751265 Radical Anthropology Bath Spa University POLLEN Conservation Namibia 🇳🇦