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Golding, Rosemary
(2022).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkac035
URL: https://academic.oup.com/shm/advance-article/doi/1...
Abstract
The music of the nineteenth-century English asylum provides a rare insight into the place of music within the structure of a medical institution during this period. Yet with archives literally ‘silent’, how far can the sound and experience of music be retrieved and reconstructed? Drawing on critical archive theory and the idea of the soundscape as well as musicological and historical practice, this article questions how we can investigate asylum soundscapes through the silences of the archive, and how we can use the resulting processes to deepen our relationship with the archive and enrichen other aspects of historical and archive studies. I argue that in drawing attention to new forms of evidence in order to address the literal ‘silence’ of the nineteenth-century asylum, new approaches to metaphorical ‘silences’ can be found.
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- Project Funding Details
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body Asylum Sounds: Music and its uses in British Asylums during the Nineteenth Century 108497/Z/15/Z Wellcome Trust - Keywords
- Archives; asylum history; music history; music therapy; mental health
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > Music
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) - Copyright Holders
- © 2022 Rosemary Golding
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- Rosemary Golding