Sound Fragments

"Sound Fragments offers exciting new perspectives on sound archives as sites of action and creative activism. Drawing on his long-term association with the International Library of African Music in South Africa, Lobley embarks on an inspirational journey to rescue sounds from the containments of a colonial past and place them back into the hands and hearts of the communities to whom they belong. In so doing, he breathes new life into our understanding of collaboration, ownership, sensorial self-witnessing and creative rediscovery."—Angela Impey, author of Sound Walking: Women, Music and Environmental Justice in an African Borderland

"This brilliant contribution to the literature on musical repatriation and collaborative research beautifully details the motives and methods of independent South African artists and culture workers as they repurposed and reimagined colonial-era archival recordings to address contemporary life in the complex arena of post-Apartheid Eastern Cape Province."—Anthony Seeger, distinguished professor emeritus, UCLA