| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, February 28, 2019 | 3:00PM - 4:30PM | Seminar Room 208N, 1 Devonshire Place |
CSUS Graduate Student Workshop
What is a phonographic recording? A copy, inseparable from an original sonic event? Or a representation, a ritual re-enactment, that requires the listener’s participation? With these questions in mind, this talk examined two sets of recordings: Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, compiled in the summer of 1952, and Woody Guthrie’s March 1940 recordings for the Library of Congress. Although these sets employ different representational strategies — with Guthrie using his own voice, Smith the voices and rhythms of various other people — both artists use the phonographic medium to construct a sonic “vision” of America. This talk explored the nature of these representations and how they might lead us to re-consider phonography and its place within the cultural nexus of American modernism.
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