Embodied Ways of Listening: Oral History, Genocide and the Audio Tour

Authors

  • Steven High Concordia University

Keywords:

oral history, genocide, audio walk, memoryscape, Rwanda, Montréal

Abstract

Building on the work of sound artists Miller and
Cardiff, oral historian Butler, as well as the broader insights
gleaned from the Montréal Life Stories project, this paper con
siders space-time dissonance in the making of Une Fleur dans
le Fleuve / A Flower in the River, a 53 minute audio walk fol
lowing the same commemorative path taken by the Rwandan
community. The tour explores the personal meaning and legacy
of mass violence through personal narratives of six Rwandan
exiles and survivors. The audio tour produces for the listener
the same kind of dissonance that Rwandan Montréalers live out
on a day-to-day basis.

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Published

2013-04-30

How to Cite

High, S. (2013). Embodied Ways of Listening: Oral History, Genocide and the Audio Tour. Anthropologica, 55(1), 73–85. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/854

Issue

Vol. 55 No. 1 (2013): Montréalology

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Copyright (c) 2013 Steven High

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