MusikWeltKarte. Der Edison-Phonograph und die musikalische Kartographie der Erde
World Map of Music. The Edison Phonograph and the Musical Cartography of the Earth

Summary/Abstract: The unique bilingual CD-ROM edition “MusikWeltKarte / World Map of Music” indicates by its title the huge searching scope that is music from all continents. It includes historic recordings mainly from the Berlin Phonogram Archive which are on wax cylinders recorded by the Edison phonograph. In books contain a large number of case studies about the relations between music, radio formatting and radio profiling. These works are a peculiar reader, collecting media texts – practicum, with analytical author’s view and reading, selection and typologization. And last, but not least, these books are a field work for the researcher who was tempted by the dynamic sound and sign landscape of media music. 1999 these valuable records were listed in the UNESCO’s Memory of the World. The multimedia project “Music World Map” by Ulrich Wegner was carried out initially as an exhibition in Berlin (2000) on the occasion of 100th anniversary of the Archive. The result of this project realized an excitwhying journey back in time. Selected samples in CD-ROM edition are recorded in the period between the last decade of the 19th century and the 1930s. Currently, some of the presented music events and cultures in the edition no longer exist or are highly modified, if we compare them with the documented patterns on wax cylinders. They are shown in geographic, social and musical context, which allows a wide cultural observation. Eminent scholars, diplomats, missionaries, archaeologists, travelers such as Carl Stumpf, Erich von Hornbostel, Georg Shünemann, Bela Bartok, Friedrich Weiss, Hans Brüning and others are among the persons who made the recordings.

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