How does music constitute an archive? What happens when we listen to or play music from the past? Hazine is seeking 3-4 pieces on music and sound collections from the Mashriq, Maghreb, East Africa, West Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Turkey, Iran, Greece, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean that address the following topics:
- Music collections and sources for the study of music and performers
- Collecting sound recordings, either for institutional and personal collections
- Radio, performance, and re-release as research or archive
- Situating music history and sound collections in different fields
- Musical transformations and traveling of songs/melodies in different contexts and places
Send pitches to hazineblog[at]gmail.com by February 14th, 2021.
Pitches should be no longer than 300 words and should be accompanied by a few sentences telling us who you are. For this call, we accept archives reviews, essays, resource guides, and are open to creative formats like zines and comics. We are open to different forms of style as we expand this category of the site but do have a look at the essays we’ve run previously, like this one on typography and this one on archivy, because they demonstrate what we’re really looking for: a strong point of view. Our standards for archive reviews are here, but we also take more narrative introductions to archives, like this one. Completed essays –if accepted– will be 2000 words or less. Deadlines for completed pieces are flexible. Each piece is paid 100 USD upon publication.