- Title
- Rethinking the decolonial moment through collaborative practices at the International Library of African Music (ILAM), South Africa
- Creator
- Watkins, Lee W, Madiba, Elijah M, McConnachie, Boudina E
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/480227
- Identifier
- vital:78409
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2021.1938628"
- Description
- Until recently the International Library of African Music (ILAM) was at the receiving end of widespread criticisms because most of its collections were acquired through the colonial privilege of its founder, Hugh Tracey. Tracey recorded music and collected musical instruments in many countries of sub-Sahara Africa without following the rigorous ethical practices which are a necessary requirement for collectors these days. Since its establishment in 1954 until the early 2000s, moreover, ILAM had largely been inaccessible to black South Africans who comprise the majority of the population. Its presence, therefore, is complicated by a racist past associated with apartheid and a colonial past characterised by the misappropriation of the colonised's resources. In view of this history, ILAM had to shape a new reality which fell in line with calls and demands for decolonised practices such that the archive became an agent for transformation on numerous fronts. This series of articles describes the efforts undertaken by ILAM so that it could develop and implement policies which would place it at the vanguard of ethical archival practices on the continent. It is argued that the decolonial could be realised only through collaboration with entities which shared our interests in participatory and transformed archival practices.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (20 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Ethnomusicology Forum, Watkins, L., Madiba, E. and McConnachie, B., 2021, January. Rethinking the decolonial moment through collaborative practices at the International Library of African Music (ILAM), South Africa. In Ethnomusicology Forum (Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 20-39). Routledge, Ethnomusicology Forum volume 30 number 1 p. 20 2021 1741-1912
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- Closed Access
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Madiba, Elijah Moleseng (Dr)
RU International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Watkins, Lee William (Dr)
McConnachie, Boudina Elizabeth (Associate Prof)
RU Department of Music & Musicology
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