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Thank you We sneak analyzing primary sources listening to sounds

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Yeah what makes sounds good Primary resource sounds give us

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so much information that we can't get from any other

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type of primary source The thing i said about you

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know you get mundane details from the paintings Like maybe

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someone in the text is going to say like here's

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some mundane details you know we might get that But

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what sound gives us is stuff like how people sounded

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what were their accents like it this time or in

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this culture you cannot No matter how much you try

00:39

or how much of a linguist you think you are

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you cannot describe an accent like you know if i

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said to dave like describe you know one of southern

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accent sounds like all right you have to say it

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exactly in order to describe it And so being able

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to hear what people sounded like can tell us a

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lot about a lot about them Also again we come

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back to the emotional aspect hearing someone actually tell their

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own story in their own voice can be really moving

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I mean that's Why npr exists Right So sounds really

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bring a unique spin to primary source So talk to

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us about that kind of the history the technology of

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sound I think we have recordings in plastic discs and

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some other things that were done around the late eighteen

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hundreds Which brings up the important limitation of sounds is

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that we don't have sound from before that time right

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So all we have is more recent stuff It also

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brings up the issue of onley Certain people's voices are

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recorded but these days that's different Probably when people are

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looking back at us for a thousand years they're gonna

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be like oh everyone was on youtube it's so easy

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But you know in the in the ladies two hundred

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nineteen hundred's not everyone's voices recorded it was only a

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few were like on a radio show are something very

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specific So we do have a limitation and whose voices

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here got it We're the only things that we do

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kind of have i guess before then our is shoot

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music for piano Well you have cadence and rhythm and

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a speed which implies certain technology keyboards you still have

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but limiting Yeah i'm glad you brought that up because

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that's Kind of a cool like do we count sheet

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music as an audio primary source or as a written

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primary source and you could do both If you play

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that music out you then basically have an audio primary

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source but maybe not Because what if that's not exactly

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how beethoven it intended but you don't know how quickly

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the metrodome went Yeah as the time for that Oh

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What makes sound a unique primary resource Can we find

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sound sources from all time periods Why not our sound 00:02:38.177 --> [endTime] sources selected How does sheet music complicate the argument

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