Haiti's Hidden Archives and Accidental Archivists: A View on the Private Collections and Their Keepers at the Heart of Safeguarding the Nation's Classical Music Heritage

IF 0.1 3区 艺术学 0 MUSIC
Rebecca Dirksen
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ABSTRACT:Private archives play a critical role in the safeguarding of Haitian cultural heritage, even as they are often precariously held collections. In this article, I take a closer look at the vulnerability of these documents as unique remnants of history that are often located exclusively in personal collections. Although this article specifically addresses tangible records of Haitian mizik klasik (European-style art music)—musical scores, for example—the considerations and arguments advanced herein may extend to heritage documents, tangible culture, and patrimony in more general terms. With this study, based on long-term ethnographic and archival work, I attempt to demonstrate, through a few key examples, the critical importance of private archives for maintaining the history of Haitian mizik klasik; to document losses, and near losses, of musical texts from the nation's most heralded composers—among them, Occide Jeanty, Werner Jaegerhuber, Édmond Saintonge, Justin Élie, and Lina Mathon Blanchet—to support future scholarship on Haitian mizik klasik; to highlight a range of issues and obstacles that routinely affect archives and impede the safeguarding of cultural materials in Haiti; and to draw attention to broader dialogues that accompany local conceptions of cultural heritage and therefore affect decisions about whether any of this material is worth saving for future generations, and, if so, how to go about accomplishing that task.RESUMEN:Las colecciones privadas desempeñan un papel fundamental en la salvaguardia del patrimonio de música clásica Haitiana, a pesar de que estos archivos se mantienen en condiciones precarias. En este artículo, investigaré con más profundidad la vulnerabilidad de estos documentos como restos únicos ubicados exclusivamente en colecciones privadas. Aunque este ensayo aborda específicamente registros tangibles de la misik klasik de Haití (partituras musicales, por ejemplo), los argumentos y consideraciones presentados aquí podrían ampliarse para abarcar documentos de patrimonio, cultura tangible y patrimonio cultural en términos más generales.
海地的隐藏档案和偶然的档案工作者:从保护国家古典音乐遗产的核心看私人收藏及其保管人
摘要:私人档案在保护海地文化遗产方面发挥着至关重要的作用,尽管它们往往是不稳定的藏品。在这篇文章中,我将仔细研究这些文件作为历史的独特残余的脆弱性,这些文件通常只存在于个人收藏中。尽管这篇文章专门讨论了海地mizik klasik(欧洲风格的艺术音乐)的有形记录,例如乐谱,但本文提出的考虑和论点可能会扩展到遗产文件、有形文化和遗产。通过这项研究,基于长期的民族志和档案工作,我试图通过几个关键的例子来证明私人档案对维护海地米齐克·克拉西克的历史至关重要;记录该国最著名作曲家的音乐文本的损失和近乎损失,其中包括欧西德·让蒂、维尔纳·耶格胡贝尔、埃蒙德·圣东格、贾斯汀·埃利和利娜·马森·布兰切特,以支持未来对海地米齐克·克拉西克的研究;强调经常影响海地档案并妨碍保护文化材料的一系列问题和障碍;并提请人们注意伴随着当地文化遗产概念而来的更广泛的对话,从而影响到这些材料是否值得为子孙后代保存的决定,如果值得,如何完成这项任务。RESUMEN:私人学院是一所基础性的海地那大学,是一所在前苏联条件下建立的大学。在艺术领域,研究人员深入研究了私人图书馆中的文件漏洞。特别是在海地音乐节(音乐节,音乐节)的有形登记处,辩论和考虑的内容都是对父系、有形文化和父系文化的放大。
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