Call and Response. Robert Lachmann’s Orientalist Archive and Jumana Manna’s Decolonial Critique
Call and Response. Robert Lachmann’s Orientalist Archive and Jumana Manna’s Decolonial Critique
Abstract
The radio program Oriental Music by German-Jewish ethnomusicologist Robert Lachmann, who emigrated to Palestine in 1935 and set up an archive of non-European music at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is the starting point for the cinematic-musical research journey by Palestinian artist Jumana Manna. This article explores both, the problems in Lachmann’s orientalist research and the potential that his idea of music as a means of rapproachment holds. Lachmann’s voice from the archive, which Manna excavates along with a multitude of Palestinian musical traditions that he had documented in the 1930s, is understood here as a call to which Manna, being critical of Orientalism, reacts with a polyphonic response.
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Keywords:
ArchivKritikOrientalismusPalästinaRadio