Music, Sound, and Documentary Film in the Global South
Abstract
Music, Sound, and Documentary Film in the Global South, edited by Christopher L. Ballengee, represents an important step toward thinking about the production and analysis of the soundscapes of documentary film, all while exploring a range of social, cultural, technological, and theoretical questions relevant to current trends in Global South studies. Written by a diverse set of authors, including filmmakers, academics, and cultural critics, the ten essays in this book provide fresh evaluations of the place of music and sound in documentary films outside the European-American milieu. On the whole, the authors illuminate how the invention of documentary film was at first a product of the colonialist project. Yet over time, access to filmmaking technologies led to the creation of documentary films relevant for local communities and national identities. In this sense, documentary film in the Global South might be broadly defined as a mode of personally or politically mediated storytelling that, by one route or another, has become a useful and recognizable means of memorializing traumatic histories and critiquing everyday lived experience. As the essays in this volume attest, close readings of documentary soundscapes provide fresh perspectives on ways of hearing and ways of being heard in the Global South.
Schlagworte
Latin American film African film Film Sound Ethnomusicology Documentary Films South Asian film film history sound design cinema studies nonfiction film- 1–16 Introduction 1–16
- 79–88 Beyond the Visual 79–88
- 89–112 Lodes of Metal 89–112
- 113–122 Framing the Future 113–122
- 123–148 Under the Amazon Sun 123–148
- 149–166 Aural Identities 149–166
- 167–174 Only Connect 167–174
- 175–182 Index 175–182
- 183–186 About the Contributors 183–186