Shawn Vancour
Biographic Data
| ID | 230960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shawn Vancour |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shawn |
| FAMILY NAME | Vancour |
| SIGNATURE | VANCOUR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6019-0374 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Confronting the Inaudible Past: A Document-Based Approach to Audio Archaeology
This chapter explores methodological challenges to reconstructing sounds of radio programs for which no known recordings survive. Taking as its case study the nation’s first successful musical variety program, created in 1922 by film impresario Samuel Rothafel and broadcast from New York’s Capitol Theatre, the chapter uses archival documents to plug gaps in extant sound collections and recover otherwise lost sounds of US radio history. Pursuing a…
From Songfilms to Telecomics: Vallée Video and the New Market for Postwar Animation
From 1948–1952, Rudy Vallée, a successful performer whose career spanned radio, film, recorded music and stage entertainment, expanded his operations into the burgeoning US television market with the launch of his independent production company, Vallée Video. One of hundreds of forgotten companies that arose during this period to meet growing demand for programming content, Vallée Video offers an important case study for understanding animation w…
Saving New Sounds: Podcast Preservation and Historiography
Is this thing on?Part microphone check, part technical support query; the question seems a fitting way to start this collection, which is not just the book you hold in your hands (or the PDF you see on your screen) but also a vibrant, growing, and slightly temperamental database that indexes millions of podcasts
Making Radio
The opening decades of the twentieth century witnessed a profound transformation in the history of modern sound media, with workers in US film, radio, and record industries developing pioneering production methods and performance styles tailored to emerging technologies of electric sound reproduction that directly shaped dominant forms and experiences of modern sound culture. Focusing on broadcasting’s initial expansion period during the 1920s, M…
Making Radio: Early Radio Production and the Rise of Modern Sound Culture
Eat what you hear: Gustasonic discourses and the material culture of commercial sound recording
This article analyzes discursive linkages between acts of listening and eating within a combined multisensory regime that the authors label the gustasonic. Including both marketing discourses mobilized by the commercial music industry and representations of record consumption in popular media texts, gustasonic discourses have shaped forms and experiences of recorded sound culture from the gramophone era to the present. The authors examine three p…
Early Radio Listening as Modernist Practice: Ambient Radio and the Aesthetic of Distraction
Moving beyond radio's textual affinities with neighboring forms of modernist art, this essay explores the listening practices and modes of aural experience associated with the medium during its initial growth period in the United States from 1920 to 1930. Challenging emphases on private domestic space as the privileged site of radio reception, it argues that encounters with radio in public spaces outside the home were equally important for shapin…
Popularizing the classics: Radio's role in the American music appreciation movement, 1922—34
Saving New Sounds: Podcast Preservation and Historiography
Is this thing on?Part microphone check, part technical support query; the question seems a fitting way to start this collection, which is not just the book you hold in your hands (or the PDF you see on your screen) but also a vibrant, growing, and slightly temperamental database that indexes millions of podcasts
Popularizing the classics: Radio's role in the American music appreciation movement, 1922—34
Early Radio Listening as Modernist Practice: Ambient Radio and the Aesthetic of Distraction
Moving beyond radio's textual affinities with neighboring forms of modernist art, this essay explores the listening practices and modes of aural experience associated with the medium during its initial growth period in the United States from 1920 to 1930. Challenging emphases on private domestic space as the privileged site of radio reception, it argues that encounters with radio in public spaces outside the home were equally important for shapin…
Eat what you hear: Gustasonic discourses and the material culture of commercial sound recording
This article analyzes discursive linkages between acts of listening and eating within a combined multisensory regime that the authors label the gustasonic. Including both marketing discourses mobilized by the commercial music industry and representations of record consumption in popular media texts, gustasonic discourses have shaped forms and experiences of recorded sound culture from the gramophone era to the present. The authors examine three p…
Making Radio
The opening decades of the twentieth century witnessed a profound transformation in the history of modern sound media, with workers in US film, radio, and record industries developing pioneering production methods and performance styles tailored to emerging technologies of electric sound reproduction that directly shaped dominant forms and experiences of modern sound culture. Focusing on broadcasting’s initial expansion period during the 1920s, M…
Making Radio: Early Radio Production and the Rise of Modern Sound Culture
From Songfilms to Telecomics: Vallée Video and the New Market for Postwar Animation
From 1948–1952, Rudy Vallée, a successful performer whose career spanned radio, film, recorded music and stage entertainment, expanded his operations into the burgeoning US television market with the launch of his independent production company, Vallée Video. One of hundreds of forgotten companies that arose during this period to meet growing demand for programming content, Vallée Video offers an important case study for understanding animation w…
Saving New Sounds: Podcast Preservation and Historiography
Is this thing on?Part microphone check, part technical support query; the question seems a fitting way to start this collection, which is not just the book you hold in your hands (or the PDF you see on your screen) but also a vibrant, growing, and slightly temperamental database that indexes millions of podcasts
Confronting the Inaudible Past: A Document-Based Approach to Audio Archaeology
This chapter explores methodological challenges to reconstructing sounds of radio programs for which no known recordings survive. Taking as its case study the nation’s first successful musical variety program, created in 1922 by film impresario Samuel Rothafel and broadcast from New York’s Capitol Theatre, the chapter uses archival documents to plug gaps in extant sound collections and recover otherwise lost sounds of US radio history. Pursuing a…
Art (4 works) · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Music History and Culture (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Acoustics (2 works) · Active listening (2 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Communication (2 works)