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Hauntology in Music: The Ghosts of Lost Futures
Italian library music, RAI archives, lost television and spectral memory
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Long-form writing on the afterlives of songs, images, places and ideas. A ballad crosses languages and centuries; a reservoir covers a village; an olive grove loses its sound; a film score alters the country beneath it. Hwael follows these connections through music, folklore, landscape, memory and cultural history.
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Opening the Drawer: Linda Perhacs and the Lineage of the Lost Tape
Psych folk, lost tapes, rediscovered women and the afterlife of quiet records
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The Spectre in Broad Daylight — Italy's Other Hauntology
Italian library music, archive film and the daylight ghosts of modernity
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Edith Holden and the Year That Did Not Know It Was Vanishing
Nature writing, phenology, Edwardian landscapes and the discipline of attention