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Part of this stem s from anxiety among social scientists over the old ghosts of colonialism and imperialism in their disciplinary past. Some archivists and ethnomusicologists have described this state of mind and questioned its rationality, calling for increased attention to archives as serious field research venues. Meanwhile, leading scholars in the discipline have been actively questioning the nature and locus, physical and conceptual, of the research field. More and more, studies are being undertaken in urban locations, at multiple sites often separated by great distances, over the Internet, and even in libraries and archives. While the opportunities for ethnomusicological and music folklore research in an ethnographic archive might seem obvious, it is perhaps more difficult to imagine doing this kind of research in an audio archive of mostly commercially-oriented recordings. By surveying the diverse collection at Syracuse University's Belfer Audio Archive and highlighting points where it might align with the discourse about the \"new field,\" I will address the questions: What kinds of fieldwork can you do in an archive? What vital data and insights can you gain by doing part of your ethnographic research in an archive, that you might not find in the external \"field\"?"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["Copyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}}],"summary":{"en":["For many years field-based ethnographic research has been the sine qua non of ethnomusicology under an anthropological paradigm. Archives, on the other hand, have been stigmatized by the discipline in term s of their suitability to true, legitimate ethnomusicological research. Part of this stem s from anxiety among social scientists over the old ghosts of colonialism and imperialism in their disciplinary past. Some archivists and ethnomusicologists have described this state of mind and questioned its rationality, calling for increased attention to archives as serious field research venues. Meanwhile, leading scholars in the discipline have been actively questioning the nature and locus, physical and conceptual, of the research field. More and more, studies are being undertaken in urban locations, at multiple sites often separated by great distances, over the Internet, and even in libraries and archives. While the opportunities for ethnomusicological and music folklore research in an ethnographic archive might seem obvious, it is perhaps more difficult to imagine doing this kind of research in an audio archive of mostly commercially-oriented recordings. By surveying the diverse collection at Syracuse University's Belfer Audio Archive and highlighting points where it might align with the discourse about the \"new field,\" I will address the questions: What kinds of fieldwork can you do in an archive? What vital data and insights can you gain by doing part of your ethnographic research in an archive, that you might not find in the external \"field\"?"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["Copyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/019/original/ARSC_Full_Logo_RGB_K.jpg?1605438091","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/236/299/small/ARSC_conf_2007_Bittel_thmb.JPG?1728128520","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2673/collection_resources/126492/file/236299","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - ARSC_conf_2007_Bittel_audio.mp3"]},"duration":2061.61775,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/236/299/small/ARSC_conf_2007_Bittel_thmb.JPG?1728128520","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2673/collection_resources/126492/file/236299/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2673/collection_resources/126492/file/236299/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arsc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/236/299/original/ARSC_conf_2007_Bittel_audio.mp3?1711044515","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":2061.61775,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2673/collection_resources/126492/file/236299","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]}]}