- Commissioned Works
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First and foremost, thanks for everyone who sent in a good word about the last episode! We love to hear from you – the good, the bad and definitely the strange you have to say about the series. In this next episode of Grapevine, we focus on radio and power: its infrastructures and entanglements, but also its gaps and sabotages. As we go through various examples from the 2nd World War Nazi Germany to neo-partisan Italian broadcasters, Stalin's attempts to form a uniform society over the waves to hosts using mailboxes to communicate with their listeners in revolutionary Syria, we arrive to the usual confusion/conclusion – each situation is different and there is no universal way to understand propaganda, subversion, or centralisation. However, or perhaps exactly because of that, we had a great time riding these powerful radio waves and hope you will enjoy tuning in!
Playlist
The Slits - Heard it through the grapevineAdena, M., Ениколопов, Р., Petrova, M., Santarosa, V., & Zhuravskaya, E. (2015). Radio and the Rise of the Nazis in Prewar Germany. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2603589
Strauss, Neil, ed. 1993. Radiotext(e). Semiotext(e). Columbia Univ.
Benjamin, Walter. 2008. ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media’. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Bourdieu, P. 2008. Structures, Habitus, Practices. https://books.google.no/books?id=lAVFcgAACAAJ.
Podcast mentioning Bourdieu in the context of social reproduction: https://soundcloud.com/novaramedia/acfm-microdose-social-reproduction
Lacey, Kate, ed. 2013. Listening Publics: The Politics and Experience of Listening in the Media Age. Polity Press.
Eco, Umberto. 1967. Towards a Semiological Guerrilla Warfare. Fabbri-Bompiani. https://disruptnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/UmbertoEco_Towards-a-Semiological-Guerrilla-Warfare.pdf
Lovell, Stephen. 2015. Russia in the Microphone Age: A History of Soviet Radio, 1919-1970. First edition. Oxford Studies in Modern European History. Oxford University Press.
Lviv Radio. 2024. Lviv Radio: place for creation and place for forgetting [L’vivske Radio: mistse tvorennia i mistse zabutia]. Episode 1. (Не)Загублені плівки. 1h 3min. https://soundcloud.com/lvivradio/sets/ne-zagubleni-plivki.
Bez, Andrew. 2024. Brekhunets: From Propaganda to Nostalgia. October 4. https://s2n.cashmereradio.com/programme/brekhunets-from-propaganda-to-nostalgia.
Klause, Inna. 2013. ‘Music in Radio Broadcasts in the Gulag’. In The Soundtrack of Conflict, edited by M.J. Grant and Férida J. Stone-Davis. Georg Olms Verlag. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783487423708-13.
Johnston, Rosamund. 2024. Red Tape: Radio and Politics in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1969. Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe. Stanford University Press.
Guattari, Felix. 2009. Soft Subversions: Texts and Interviews 1977-1985. Semiotext(e). https://molecularrevolution.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/felix-guattari-soft-subversions.pdf
Fanon, Frantz. 2007. A Dying Colonialism. Nachdr. Grove Press.
Ash, Timothy Garton. 2010. Cold War Broadcasting. NED-New edition, 1. Central European University Press. JSTOR. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7829/j.ctt1282v9.
GRANVILLE, JOHANNA. 2005. ‘“Caught with Jam on Our Fingers”: Radio Free Europe and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956’. Diplomatic History 29 (5): 811–39. JSTOR.
Dyczok, Marta, and O. V. Gaman-Golutvina, eds. 2009. Media, Democracy and Freedom: The Post-Communist Experience. Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe, v. 6. Peter Lang.
ABBA - Ring Ring
The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
De Angelis, Enrico, and Yazan Badran. 2016. ‘Interacting in a Context of War: Communication Spaces in Idlib’: Confluences Méditerranée N° 99 (4): 149–60. https://doi.org/10.3917/come.099.0149.
REM - Radio Free Europe (Mitch Easter 1981 Mix)