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Voice and Wax. Sounding Artistic Speech in Russia in the 1900s–1930s: Poetry, Sound Recording, Performance

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Voice and Wax. Sounding Artistic Speech in Russia in the 1900s–1930s: Poetry, Sound Recording, Performance
9.99 €
Sound recordings, as well as other ways of documenting "live" performance, are often contrasted with the events themselves as artifacts devoid of authenticity. Valery Zolotukhin's book seeks to refute this logic; exploring the traditions and practices of poetic recitation in early twentieth-century Russia, the author offers an innovative perspective on the history of literature and performative arts through the prism of media theory. Drawing on years of study of auditory archives and focusing on a survey of groundbreaking studies of sound literature, Zolotukhin analyzes borderline performative genres (for example: agitational amateur theater and collective recitation), as well as the evolution of listening techniques during one of the most intense periods of Western European cultural history. As a result, we have before us an original work at the intersection of philology, performance studies, and media studies that proposes not to read but to listen to the history of Russian literature of the early twentieth century. Another task the author sets for himself is to shed light on the mechanisms of cultural memory. After all, the interference and crackle of the phonograph roll have, over time, become a condition for us to believe in the authenticity of voices from the past.
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