RecordingSylhet

She can hear what we can’t because she knows what to listen out for.

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Title as given by the source: She can hear what we can’t because she knows what to listen out for. She can also listen to absent sounds, because she knows where they were supposed to be. I went to meet her with her with the disembodied voices of Arnold Bake’s seamen, plucked from the sound archive. On 15 January 2018 Ambarish Datta and I went to meet 88-year-old Sushoma Das, for she is someone who keeps songs in her body. We knew she would hear more in those recordings than most people we know.
Place: SylhetLocation is approximate — known to district level.
Date: Date unknown
Collection: The Travelling Archive
Persistent ID: BDMA-R-000563

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APA: She can hear what we can’t because she knows what to listen out for. She can also listen to absent sounds, because she knows where they were supposed to be. I went to meet her with her with the disembodied voices of Arnold Bake’s seamen, plucked from the sound archive. On 15 January 2018 Ambarish Datta and I went to meet 88-year-old Sushoma Das, for she is someone who keeps songs in her body. We knew she would hear more in those recordings than most people we know.. (n.d.). The Travelling Archive. Shurer Manchitra. https://shurer-manchitra.pages.dev/en/recordings/BDMA-R-000563 Original: https://www.thetravellingarchive.org/sushoma-mashima-a-keeper-of-songs/
Chicago: "She can hear what we can’t because she knows what to listen out for. She can also listen to absent sounds, because she knows where they were supposed to be. I went to meet her with her with the disembodied voices of Arnold Bake’s seamen, plucked from the sound archive. On 15 January 2018 Ambarish Datta and I went to meet 88-year-old Sushoma Das, for she is someone who keeps songs in her body. We knew she would hear more in those recordings than most people we know.." Recorded in Sylhet. n.d. The Travelling Archive. Shurer Manchitra, BDMA-R-000563. https://shurer-manchitra.pages.dev/en/recordings/BDMA-R-000563. Original at https://www.thetravellingarchive.org/sushoma-mashima-a-keeper-of-songs/.
Persistent URL: https://shurer-manchitra.pages.dev/en/recordings/BDMA-R-000563

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