Aural history : essays on recorded sound

Preface vii

CRISPIN JEWITT

Using recordings to study musical performance 1
DANIEL LEECH WILKINSON
Contextual discography 13
The cultural significance of the repertoire of East African
tuarab music legend, Siti binti Saad
JANET TOPP FARGION
The Century Speaks 27
A millennium oral history project
ROB PERKS
The National SoundArchive 41
The first fifty years
TIMOTHY DAY
Capturing and preserving the sounds of nature 65
RICHARD RANFT

The hidden history of British commercial radio
79 Radio archives as cultural witness
SEAN STREET
Forensic evidence in historical sound-recordings
107 PETER COPELAND

Black British swing 117
The African diaspora's contribution to England's own
jazz of the 1930s and 1940s
ANDREW SIMONS
I Do they mean us? 139
Archiving current creative practice
TOBY OAKES
Notes on contributors 155
Track listing for accompanying CD 157