Nouvelle publication : "Collecting Methodologies with the Phonograph"

J’ai publié un chapitre consacré à mon activité de collectionneur et à mes recherches autour des phonographes acoustiques et des disques 78 tours dans l’ouvrage collectif Collecting Cinema, Rewriting Film History. Je suis très heureux d’avoir participé à cet ouvrage, riche en contributions passionnantes de chercheur·ses, collectionneur·ses, archivistes et cinéastes.

« Collecting Methodologies with the Phonograph: The Performance of “Canned” Vaudeville », in André Habib, Louis Pelletier, Jean-Pierre Sirois-Trahan, avec la collaboration de Charlotte Brady-Savignac (dir.), Collecting Cinema, Rewriting Film History: Between the Visible and the Invisible, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2025, p. 271-284.

RÉSUMÉ 

Drawing on my own experience as a user and collector of 78 rpm records and wind-up phonographs, this chapter begins by developing a theoretical framework for engaging with the historical materialities of recorded sound. I highlight the interests of collapsing the scholar and collector into a single figure: a contemporary user of historical machines capable of reenacting, and reinventing, scenarios of reception and use. I then demonstrate one such scenario by building a program of “canned” vaudeville out of records from my collection.This provides an opportunity for investigating the links between vaudeville performances across media, including the short films of the early sound era