Abstract
This chapter explores the confluence of sound recording, language, and digital technologies in Arnhem Land in Australia, owned by Aborigines, and examines how technologies for capturing sound have enabled the Australian Aborigines to keep their knowledge and traditions alive in spite of language loss. It also looks at how the indigenous peoples employed such technologies to “write” their stories even without inscribing them into a semiotic modality that sheds their fundamental oral qualities. The chapter demonstrates how media and digitization have made the voicing of Aboriginal languages possible.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Voice: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media |
| Editors | Norie Neumark, Ross Gibson and Theo van Leeuwen |
| Place of Publication | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Publisher | MIT Press |
| Pages | 71-90 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780262013901 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2010 |