Encapsulated Voices : : Estonian Sound Recordings from the German Prisoner-of-War Camps in 1916-1918 / / Jaan Ross.

• HerausgeberIn: Ross, Jaan,
• Place / Publishing House: Köln : : Böhlau Verlag, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: German
• Series: Das Baltikum in Geschichte und Gegenwart ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This book focuses on the sound recordings of ethnic Estonian informants, prepared between 1916 and 1918 in five German prisoner-of-war camps. Before 1918, Estonia was part of the Russian empire, and during World War I ethnic Estonian conscripts fought in the Russian army. The duration of available audio material is about one hour and it is presented on the CD accompanying the book. The original audio material is preserved in two archives: wax rolls at the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin-Dahlem (Phonogramm-Archiv) and shellac discs at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Lautarchiv). This volume consists of nine chapters written by authors working in diverse fields such as archival or folklore studies, history, linguistics, and musicology.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The Lautarchiv of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin -- 2. Troops of Estonian origin among Russian POWs in Germany in 1914–1918 -- 3. On Estonian recordings made in German prisoner-of-war camps during World War I -- 4. Prisoners of war as language informants: observations of two archivist/historians -- 5. Acoustic features of quantity in early recordings of Estonian -- 6. Dialectal features in recordings of Estonian speech in the Berlin archives -- 7. Recordings of Bible texts in South Estonian: observations of a translation historian -- 8. Observations on tales of folkloric or literary origin appearing in the Berlin recordings of Estonian speech -- 9. Recordings of songs by Estonian prisoners of war: repertoire and its representations -- Appendix I. Estonian informants recorded in the German prisoner-of-war camps in 1916–1918 -- Appendix II. Sound recordings reproduced on CD -- Appendix III. The authors and their affiliations -- Abbreviations -- Name and subject index