Elena Razlogova
Biographic Data
| ID | 236709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elena Razlogova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elena |
| FAMILY NAME | Razlogova |
| SIGNATURE | RAZLOGOVA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6621-7841 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Freeform Radio and the History of Music Streaming
This chapter uses freeform radio history to critique the current media studies research agenda focused on streaming platforms at the expense of alternatives. It argues that the freeform radio format’s affinities with hacker culture drove technological innovation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, during the pre-web era of Bulletin Board Systems and Gopher sites. In this period, the freeform format thrived in nonprofit college radio, mixing emergi…
Sembene behind and beyond the Iron Curtain
This article examines how the Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene represented his oeuvre and how his films were received on both sides of the Iron Curtain in the late 1960s and 1970s, focusing on the Soviet Union and the United States. Sembene’s resounding success in both worlds reflects not only his talent, but his skill for self-fashioning across ideological lines. American publics have celebrated Sembene as a postcolonial auteur. In the Sovie…
Tuning sound for infrastructures: Artificial intelligence, automation, and the cultural politics of audio mastering
This paper traces the infrastructural politics of automated music mastering to reveal how contemporary iterations of artificial intelligence (AI) shape cultural production. The paper examines the emergence of LANDR, an online platform that offers automated music mastering, built on top of supervised machine learning branded as artificial intelligence. Increasingly, machine learning will become an integral part of signal processing for sounds and …
An Air Map for World Cinema: Aeroflot as an Infrastructure for Cinematic Internationalism
The expansion of global air travel in the Cold War era fueled diverse forms of state‐sponsored internationalism, including international writers' congresses, concert tours, and especially art and film festivals. Film festivals served as a key stage for cultural competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as the main way for decolonized Asian and African states to showcase their new national cinemas. The Soviet state airlin…
Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, the Soviet Union, and Cold War Circuits for African Cinema, 1958-1978
Based on previously unexamined documents in Soviet archives, this essay shows Paulin S. Vieyra's key role as a "cinematic internationalist" who used the socialist and Cold War film networks to advance African cinema. As a filmmaker, producer, scholar, and Senegalese government official, Vieyra took part in Soviet film life, beginning with the 1957 International Youth Festival in Moscow. Vieyra participated in the making of the Soviet documentary …
When, Where, and How Is Digital Sound
This panel’s first author, in discussing podcast archiving, notes that internet archives like the Wayback Machine have had much more focus on preserving visual and text content than sound. Internet Research has similarly traditionally had less engagement with sound than with other forms of digital content. This panel seeks to contribute to ongoing work to bring Sound Studies and Internet Studies into better conversation with each other, taking di…
The Liberation Politics of Live Translation: Global South Cinemas in Soviet Tashkent
The Liberation Politics of Live Translation:Global South Cinemas in Soviet Tashkent Elena Razlogova (bio) When new Global South cinemas entered transnational circulation in the decolonization era, film translation became a weapon of liberation.1 In reconstructing this key role, this essay seeks to temper the current tendency in film studies to celebrate untranslatabilty in Global South cinemas. It focuses on the Festival of Asian, African, and La…
Provincializing Spotify: Radio, algorithms and conviviality
Focusing on early experiments with algorithms and music streaming at WFMU, the longest-running US freeform radio station, and the Free Music Archive (FMA), a curated open music website, this article shows how commercial streaming services have been indebted to independent, open music infrastructures but have then erased and denied that history. The article ‘provincializes’ music streaming platforms such as Spotify by focusing not on their commerc…
Machine Learning in Context, or Learning from LANDR: Artificial Intelligence and the Platformization of Music Mastering
This article proposes a contextualist approach to machine learning and aesthetics, using LANDR, an online platform that offers automated music mastering and that trumpets its use of supervised machine learning, branded as artificial intelligence (AI). Increasingly, machine learning will become an integral part of the processing of sounds and images, shaping the way our culture sounds, looks, and feels. Yet we cannot know exactly how much of a rol…
Standard and non-standard versions of translation
The Politics of Translation at Soviet Film Festivals during the Cold War
The Politics of Translation at Soviet Film Festivals during the Cold War Elena Razlogova (bio) [Erratum] Some time between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, my grandmother, Kira Razlogova, translated an African film at the Moscow International Film Festival. It was an official screening, with the ambassador of the African country present in the audience. She sat in a translator’s booth at the back of the theater, reading into the microphone fro…
Framing the Contested History of Digital Culture
The introductory essay provides historical and analytical background for articles included in this special issue. It covers the historical methodologies for studying the very recent past, the history of digital culture and the Internet, the interaction between information and communication technologies and global social movements, the problem of digital labor, the rise of open-source software and open-access scholarship, and the issues arising in…
Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/. Created and maintained by the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded…
Journal Article Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/. Created and maintained by the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Reviewed June 15–18, 2006 Get access Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/. Created and ma…
True Crime Radio and Listener Disenchantment with Network Broadcasting, 1935-1946
This article uses the true-crime radio program Gang Busters to explore the decline in the relationship between network broadcasters and their audiences in the late 1930s and early 1940s. In the 1920s and early 1930s, with no scientific structure yet available to analyze and predict audience response, radio producers created programs and genres relying on individual listeners' letters and personal observations. In this period, listener response in…
True Crime Radio and Listener Disenchantment with Network Broadcasting, 1935-1946
This article uses the true-crime radio program Gang Busters to explore the decline in the relationship between network broadcasters and their audiences in the late 1930s and early 1940s. In the 1920s and early 1930s, with no scientific structure yet available to analyze and predict audience response, radio producers created programs and genres relying on individual listeners' letters and personal observations. In this period, listener response in…
Provincializing Spotify: Radio, algorithms and conviviality
Focusing on early experiments with algorithms and music streaming at WFMU, the longest-running US freeform radio station, and the Free Music Archive (FMA), a curated open music website, this article shows how commercial streaming services have been indebted to independent, open music infrastructures but have then erased and denied that history. The article ‘provincializes’ music streaming platforms such as Spotify by focusing not on their commerc…
Framing the Contested History of Digital Culture
The introductory essay provides historical and analytical background for articles included in this special issue. It covers the historical methodologies for studying the very recent past, the history of digital culture and the Internet, the interaction between information and communication technologies and global social movements, the problem of digital labor, the rise of open-source software and open-access scholarship, and the issues arising in…
Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/. Created and maintained by the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded…
Journal Article Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/. Created and maintained by the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Reviewed June 15–18, 2006 Get access Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/. Created and ma…
True Crime Radio and Listener Disenchantment with Network Broadcasting, 1935-1946
This article uses the true-crime radio program Gang Busters to explore the decline in the relationship between network broadcasters and their audiences in the late 1930s and early 1940s. In the 1920s and early 1930s, with no scientific structure yet available to analyze and predict audience response, radio producers created programs and genres relying on individual listeners' letters and personal observations. In this period, listener response in…
Framing the Contested History of Digital Culture
The introductory essay provides historical and analytical background for articles included in this special issue. It covers the historical methodologies for studying the very recent past, the history of digital culture and the Internet, the interaction between information and communication technologies and global social movements, the problem of digital labor, the rise of open-source software and open-access scholarship, and the issues arising in…
The Politics of Translation at Soviet Film Festivals during the Cold War
The Politics of Translation at Soviet Film Festivals during the Cold War Elena Razlogova (bio) [Erratum] Some time between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, my grandmother, Kira Razlogova, translated an African film at the Moscow International Film Festival. It was an official screening, with the ambassador of the African country present in the audience. She sat in a translator’s booth at the back of the theater, reading into the microphone fro…
Standard and non-standard versions of translation
Machine Learning in Context, or Learning from LANDR: Artificial Intelligence and the Platformization of Music Mastering
This article proposes a contextualist approach to machine learning and aesthetics, using LANDR, an online platform that offers automated music mastering and that trumpets its use of supervised machine learning, branded as artificial intelligence (AI). Increasingly, machine learning will become an integral part of the processing of sounds and images, shaping the way our culture sounds, looks, and feels. Yet we cannot know exactly how much of a rol…
When, Where, and How Is Digital Sound
This panel’s first author, in discussing podcast archiving, notes that internet archives like the Wayback Machine have had much more focus on preserving visual and text content than sound. Internet Research has similarly traditionally had less engagement with sound than with other forms of digital content. This panel seeks to contribute to ongoing work to bring Sound Studies and Internet Studies into better conversation with each other, taking di…
The Liberation Politics of Live Translation: Global South Cinemas in Soviet Tashkent
The Liberation Politics of Live Translation:Global South Cinemas in Soviet Tashkent Elena Razlogova (bio) When new Global South cinemas entered transnational circulation in the decolonization era, film translation became a weapon of liberation.1 In reconstructing this key role, this essay seeks to temper the current tendency in film studies to celebrate untranslatabilty in Global South cinemas. It focuses on the Festival of Asian, African, and La…
Provincializing Spotify: Radio, algorithms and conviviality
Focusing on early experiments with algorithms and music streaming at WFMU, the longest-running US freeform radio station, and the Free Music Archive (FMA), a curated open music website, this article shows how commercial streaming services have been indebted to independent, open music infrastructures but have then erased and denied that history. The article ‘provincializes’ music streaming platforms such as Spotify by focusing not on their commerc…
Tuning sound for infrastructures: Artificial intelligence, automation, and the cultural politics of audio mastering
This paper traces the infrastructural politics of automated music mastering to reveal how contemporary iterations of artificial intelligence (AI) shape cultural production. The paper examines the emergence of LANDR, an online platform that offers automated music mastering, built on top of supervised machine learning branded as artificial intelligence. Increasingly, machine learning will become an integral part of signal processing for sounds and …
An Air Map for World Cinema: Aeroflot as an Infrastructure for Cinematic Internationalism
The expansion of global air travel in the Cold War era fueled diverse forms of state‐sponsored internationalism, including international writers' congresses, concert tours, and especially art and film festivals. Film festivals served as a key stage for cultural competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as the main way for decolonized Asian and African states to showcase their new national cinemas. The Soviet state airlin…
Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, the Soviet Union, and Cold War Circuits for African Cinema, 1958-1978
Based on previously unexamined documents in Soviet archives, this essay shows Paulin S. Vieyra's key role as a "cinematic internationalist" who used the socialist and Cold War film networks to advance African cinema. As a filmmaker, producer, scholar, and Senegalese government official, Vieyra took part in Soviet film life, beginning with the 1957 International Youth Festival in Moscow. Vieyra participated in the making of the Soviet documentary …
Freeform Radio and the History of Music Streaming
This chapter uses freeform radio history to critique the current media studies research agenda focused on streaming platforms at the expense of alternatives. It argues that the freeform radio format’s affinities with hacker culture drove technological innovation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, during the pre-web era of Bulletin Board Systems and Gopher sites. In this period, the freeform format thrived in nonprofit college radio, mixing emergi…
Sembene behind and beyond the Iron Curtain
This article examines how the Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene represented his oeuvre and how his films were received on both sides of the Iron Curtain in the late 1960s and 1970s, focusing on the Soviet Union and the United States. Sembene’s resounding success in both worlds reflects not only his talent, but his skill for self-fashioning across ideological lines. American publics have celebrated Sembene as a postcolonial auteur. In the Sovie…
Computer Science (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Music History and Culture (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Art history (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works)