TY - JOUR
T1 - When the archive sings to you
T2 - SNCC and the atmospheric politics of race
AU - Inwood, Joshua F.J.
AU - Alderman, Derek H.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research is supported by the National Science Foundation. Errors are entirely our own.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2017.
PY - 2018/4/1
Y1 - 2018/4/1
N2 - Through our engagement with the ‘Freedom Singers’, we advocate for approaching the archive through the racial politics of atmosphere to understand both the affective, emotion-laden practices of the past and the affective work carried out by contemporary researchers within the archive. This atmosphere provides an important pathway for identifying and analyzing the relationality and encounters that advance a fuller study of the black experience and define what (and who) constitutes critical actors in that story. The Freedom Singers and their politico-musical legacy, while lost to many members of the public and even many scholars, offer an important lesson in broadening our appreciation of civil rights practice, as well as the practice of archival research itself. This piece contributes to broader understandings of the archive as an affective space and the role of affect in analyzing archive materials.
AB - Through our engagement with the ‘Freedom Singers’, we advocate for approaching the archive through the racial politics of atmosphere to understand both the affective, emotion-laden practices of the past and the affective work carried out by contemporary researchers within the archive. This atmosphere provides an important pathway for identifying and analyzing the relationality and encounters that advance a fuller study of the black experience and define what (and who) constitutes critical actors in that story. The Freedom Singers and their politico-musical legacy, while lost to many members of the public and even many scholars, offer an important lesson in broadening our appreciation of civil rights practice, as well as the practice of archival research itself. This piece contributes to broader understandings of the archive as an affective space and the role of affect in analyzing archive materials.
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U2 - 10.1177/1474474017739023
DO - 10.1177/1474474017739023
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85045044583
SN - 1474-4740
VL - 25
SP - 361
EP - 368
JO - Cultural Geographies
JF - Cultural Geographies
IS - 2
ER -