CAMS Events
Sound Designs: Radio Broadcasting and the Transformations of Early Twentieth Century Audio Culture
Cinema & Media Studies Professor Shawn VanCour speaks on radio’s rise to prominence as one of the most celebrated and influential media arts of the 20th century. Join him for discussion of early radio programming and production methods, affinities with other visual and audio arts, and the challenges and importance of studying our sonic past. Lunch served.
Date: Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
Time: 12:00 pm
Duration: 1 hour
Location: Gould Library Athenaeum
Sponsored by: Cinema and Media Studies
Contact: Marla Erickson, Cinema and Media Studies, x5567
Early twentieth-century American culture witnessed a proliferation of media for visual and aural expression, spawning new forms of aesthetic practice and new groups of creative culture workers. In this talk, Shawn VanCour traces the rise of one of the period's most influential media arts, radio broadcasting. Taking early musical programming as his case study, he examines the production practices and performance styles pursued by a new class of professional radio artists, mapping affinities and differences with related spheres of audio and visual art, and addressing key challenges in studying the traces of our sonic past.