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Decolonizing “Mayakovsky”: radiofreerainforest and the digital archive
February
11
2021
Clint Burnham discusses the radiofreerainforest digital archive at SFU, focusing on the Four Horsemen’s poem “Mayakovsky,” and asking what it means to listen to sound poetry – that is, in this case an LP, broadcast on a community radio station in 1989, and since preserved as a digital object. “Poetry on the air sounds like the Muses in striped trousers,” declared George Orwell in 1945 – a sound poem over Zoom even more so. Orwell made those remarks discussing the broadcasting of English poetry over the radio to India during World War II, and the Four Horsemen’s appropriation of throat-singing may raise contemporary colonial worries. Responses by Deanna Fong and Teddie Brock.
Moderated by SpokenWeb Co-Applicant and Governing Board member Michelle Levy (SFU).
