The Pratinada site: hearing Southeast Asia
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This website contains sounds, mainly music and speech, recorded in Southeast Asia, during the colonial era and after.
Three main archives can be accessed :
- The Jaap Kunst archive of wax cylinders collected in Indonesia (managed by the Netherlands, hosted in the Berliner Phonogramm Archiv, in Germany)
- The CNRS/Musée de l’Homme Sound Archives (managed by France, at CREM, hosted by the French National Library)
- The BBC Empire Service collection in Southeast Asia (hosted in the United Kingdom)
Each archive enables unique perspectives regarding the impact of colonialism on the creation, performance and constitution of (sonic) cultural heritage, not only in times of colonial control, but also in the early twenty-first century.
Development of the Pratinada website began in June 2021. It is part of the project Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives (DeCoSEAS), funded by European funds from the Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage and Global Change (JPICH), 2021-2024. This website is the achievement of the “digitalization” consortium, led by France. Anas Ghrab (Lisa-Digit Project, IT) is the developer of the platform.
The development has been carried out with :
- France, CNRS: Dana Rappoport (ethnomusicologist, Principal Investigator), Joséphine Simonnot (Sound database expert) and Pierre Prouteau (Postdoctoral Researcher)
- The Netherlands, University of Amsterdam: meLê yamomo and Barbara Titus (Principal Investigators), Layan Nijem (Project Coordinator)
- United Kingdom, SOAS: Cristina Juan (Principal Investigator), Jovi Juan (Data Manager)
- Southeast Asian partners
Translators :
Thai (Pierre Prouteau), Lao (Sèng Aloune Keovanthin), Khmer (Michel Antelme), Indonesian (Ignatius Aditya, Citra Aryandari), Vietnamese (Y-Lin Lê), Tetun (Romeu Silva), English (Philip Yampolsky), French (Dana Rappoport), Filipino (Verne de la Peña, Elizabeth Enriquez, Roan May Opiso, Sol Maris Trinidad, Jose Mirabueno).
