IIPC Debate 130 Towards a historiography of recorded soundLäsnäosallistuminen / In-person

Prof. Eva Moreda Rodríguez (University of Glasgow)

keskiviikkona 6.5.2026 12.15.00 → 13.45.00 Europe/Helsinki

A267 (Arcanum)

Interest in historical recorded sound (1887-1945) has proliferated in the last two decades in a range of academic fields, including Music (in turn comprising Musicology, Performance Studies, Popular Music Studies), Sound Studies, Material Culture Studies, Cultural Studies, Media History and Archaeology, the Sociology of Music, the History Science and Technology, and more. At the same time, and roughly within the same timeframe, the generalization of the digital audio file and associated commercialization platforms has received considerable interest both in a range of comparable academic fields and in the broader public arena. However, and despite recent efforts, disconnections remain between different disciplinary approaches, and between historical and contemporary research. Based on my recent experience of writing a non-academic book on the history of audio formats, the present seminar intends to formulate a set of principles for a historiography of recorded sound that is multi-faceted, global, ethical and inclusive, and that can create a more receptive ground for discussion across disciplines and time periods.

Eva Moreda Rodríguez is Professor of Musicology at the University of Glasgow. A specialist in the political and cultural history of music in modern Spain, she is the author of Music and Exile in Francoist Spain (Ashgate, 2015), Music Criticism and Music Critics in Early Francoist Spain (Oxford University Press, 2016), and Inventing the recording. The phonograph and national culture in Spain (Oxford University Press, 2021) as well as edited volumes on early recording technologies and music in the Spanish Civil War, and numerous articles and book chapters.