Creadores de memoria : los archivos sonoros y audiovisuales en México

Abstract

This book is a collective work over the state of preservation of sound and audiovisual archives in Mexico. It initiates with “Historical approximation to the origin of a collective work over the state of sound archives and audiovisuals in Mexico”, where it is placed the evolution and are offered the perspectives of the archives. “Sound documents and audio-visual in Memory of the World”, recuperates the vision of Catherine Bloc, President of the Mexican Committee of UNESCO. Also presented is “Antecedents and actual situation of sound archives which ward anthropological and ethnomusicological collections in Mexico”, from Benjamin Muratalla, director of the Fonotec of the National Institute of Antropology and History (IHAH.) In “Cronic of a rescue; the music composed for movies in Mexico (1956-1979)” are consignated the reflections of Sybille Hayem, french sonidist and archivist, who [since] for more than a decade has defended with passion and reason the existences of sound bands of Mexican pictures. “The sound heritage of Radio UNAM. Challenges for its sustainable preservation”, was written by Carmen Limon Celoria y Medina Delgado de Radio UNAM. In the Chapter “A tissue of audiovisual memory”. Questions towards a participative archive”, María Álvarez Malvido y Daniela Parra Hinojosa present a perspective of sound archives in the communitary radio in Mexico. “Achievements and challenges of the Repository in Audio of the Project Poetic Sonora MX at four years of its creation” de Susana Aktories y Aurelio Meza, mention the process of creation of a digital repository as a system of information for the preservation or sound art. Besides Mariela Salazar offers a scenery of preservation or sound archives in “The challenge of conservation of digital heritage in Mexico”. And Gerardo León Lastra, writes “Present situation and future of preservation of digital films in the Filmoteca of UNAM”. The situation o film archives grows with the participation of the young academician Nila guiss who writes “”The access to filmic memories. A panorama of actions for the future”. A perspective on preservation of television content is written in “Notes to think on audiovisual preservation in Mexico”, for Ubaldo Candia, responsible of the radio and television archives of the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí. To conclude it is presented “The historical archives with sound and audiovisual records of Mexico City”, a chapter written by María Mercedes Fernández Carbajal and Javier Domínguez Galicia from the National School of Biblioteconomy and Archivonomy. This chapter recuperates the research in historical archives in Mexico City in order to identify whether they count with sound and audiovisual collections.