Section outline

  • Assigned reading:

    Velimir Khlebnikov, "The radio of the future," (1921) Collected Works, vol. 1, trans. Paul Schmidt, ed. Charlotte Douglas (1987), 392–396. [Original Russian]

    Suzanne Lommers, “Broadcasting a Musical Culture,” in Europe - On Air: Interwar Projects for Radio Broadcasting (2012), 235–88. 

    Further reading:

    Stephen Lovell, Russia in the Microphone Age: A History of Soviet Radio, 1919-1970 (2015). [Sign into Oxford Scholarship Online for electronic copy.]

    Margarete Vöhringer, Avantgarde und Psychotechnik: Wissenschaft, Kunst und Technik der Wahrnehmungsexperimente in der frühen Sowjetunion (2007).

    [click on image for source] Image entitled "Arts appreciation." "He can't bear modern music yet. At any moment I'll have to change his pants."