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Sharing Sound Archives
Latin American Wax Cylinder Recordings of the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv in the Digital Collections of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI)

What did Indigenous music and Indigenous ritual songs sound like 100 years ago? What is the relevance of these historical sound recordings for Indigenous communities today? On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv of the Ethnologisches Museum, the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI) and the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv will present wax cylinder recordings made between 1905 and 1934 in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Peru. The event will reflect on strategies to enhance the accessibility of historical recordings and to foster their circulation and re-appropriation by local communities in the regions of origin. Particular emphasis will be placed on the significance of collaborative approaches in relating collections that are distributed across different institutions.

00:00 – Welcome and Introduction
Barbara Göbel (Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut)

05:40 – 125 “Years of the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv”
Maurice Mengel (Ethnologisches Museum)

26:20 – “Latin America in the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv: Collaborative Approaches to the Visualisation, Recirculation and Reappropriation of Historical Sound Recordings”
Barbara Göbel (Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut)

57:00 – “Listening with and beyond the Archive: The Return of Hans Heinrich Brüning’s Recordings (1910 ─ 1925) to Peru”
Walther Maradiegue (Head of the Emmy Noether Research Group “Archival Sovereignty: Indigenous Digital Media, Language Revitalisation and Land Defence in the Andes”, Universität Bonn) presents research findings from a research project carried out jointly with Gisela Cánepa (Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, PUCP) on the wax cylinder recordings made by Hans Heinrich Brüning in the Peruvian region of Lambayeque between 1910 and 1925, and pointed out the significance of their recirculation for the contemporary reception and performance of local Peruvian music culture.

The Latin American Wax Cylinder Recordings are accessible through the IAI’s Digital Collections at https://digital.iai.spk-berlin.de/vie...

The event took place on October 7, 2025 in cooperation with the Ethnologisches Museum (SMB)