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 a...

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