Today as a part of the heritage action research group we visited the AIIS- American institute of Indian studies for the second time but this time to see and learn about the Audio Visual library. Their library consists of almost 25,000 hours of recording of many different things like poems being recited, someone speaking about their lives, and others were mostly based on music. Music is a way of communication for many people, it is a way many people interact and is a very important aspect of Heritage. Audio Visuals is music studied and understood with social meaning.
We discussed alot about 'ORAL HISTORY'- what it is? what is so special about it? How to go about it? What all can be collected? What to do after collecting history? all these questions were answered by two highly professional people, who helped us understand and made our views clearer.
There were archives of songs, poems etc from more than about 100 years. Now because the digital world has progressed soo much in the past decades, the way of maintaining and preserving these archives are changing therefore it has become a little difficult.
We discussed alot about 'ORAL HISTORY'- what it is? what is so special about it? How to go about it? What all can be collected? What to do after collecting history? all these questions were answered by two highly professional people, who helped us understand and made our views clearer.
There were archives of songs, poems etc from more than about 100 years. Now because the digital world has progressed soo much in the past decades, the way of maintaining and preserving these archives are changing therefore it has become a little difficult.
cassettes, old tapes
old music player
place where the archives were stored.(air-conditioned area)
