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The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation is a significant edited
volume that critically explores issues surrounding musical
repatriation, chiefly of recordings from audiovisual archives. The
Handbook provides a dynamic and richly layered collection of
stories and critical questions for anyone engaged or interested in
repatriation or archival work. Repatriation often is overtly guided
by an ethical mandate to "return" something to where it belongs, by
such means as working to provide reconnection and Indigenous
control and access to cultural materials. Essential as these
mandates can be, this remarkable volume reveals dimensions to
repatriation beyond those which can be understood as simple acts of
"giving back" or returning an archive to its "homeland." Musical
repatriation can entail subjective negotiations involving living
subjects, intangible elements of cultural heritage, and complex
histories, situated in intersecting webs of power relations and
manifold other contexts. The forty-eight expert authors of this
book's thirty-eight chapters engage with multifaceted aspects of
musical repatriation, situating it as a concept encompassing widely
ranging modes of cultural work that can be both profoundly
interdisciplinary and embedded at the core of ethnographic and
historical scholarship. These authors explore a rich variety of
these processes' many streams, making the volume a compelling space
for critical analysis of musical repatriation and its wider
significance. The Handbook presents these chapters in a way that
offers numerous emergent perspectives, depending on one's chosen
trajectory through the volume. From retracing the paths of archived
collections to exploring memory, performance, research goals,
institutional power, curation, preservation, pedagogy and method,
media and transmission, digital rights and access, policy and
privilege, intellectual property, ideology, and the evolving
institutional norms that have marked the preservation and ownership
of musical archives-The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation
addresses these key topics and more in a deep, richly detailed, and
diverse exploration.
A rare and fascinating view into the creative process of one of the
most notorious, talented and colorful figures of American cinema.
When production began in 1928, writer/director Erich von Stroheim
predicted the silent epic Queen Kelly would be his greatest
cinematic achievement. Within a few weeks, however, the film was
behind schedule, over budget, and filled with scenes of such frank
eroticism and immorality that it was doubtful the film could ever
pass the censors. With the film only partially completed, a
frustrated and disgusted producer/star Gloria Swanson eventually
shut down production. The demise of Queen Kelly marked the turning
point in the career of one of silent cinema's greatest directors,
who would never be given another filmmaking opportunity of this
scale. The long-awaited publication of the complete screenplay
(presented in cooperation with the Gloria Swanson estate) offers a
richly detailed picture of von Stroheim's unrealized masterpiece
that inarguably would have been one of the last great spectacles of
the silent era. In addition to the extensively annotated 230-page
shooting script, this volume includes 90 pages from an earlier
draft. The original ending is dramatically different from the final
version and had been discarded and rewritten by von Stroheim in an
effort to cut costs during production. Also included are
photographs, full production credits and an introduction detailing
the troubled history of this most remarkable film. This book offers
a thought-provoking view of the masterpiece that might have been.
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