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Mid-twentieth century radio art: The ontological insecurity of the radio text

Author(s): Querido, Pedro

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In this article, I set out to examine the ontological instability of mid-twentieth century artistic works written for the medium of radio that derives from the tension between transient sound and permanent text. I explore how the evanescence commonly associated with sound in general and radio in particular caused mid-twentieth century radio practitioners like Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and Tom Stoppard to strive for both the simplicity of a superficially intelligible aural text and the complexity stemming from the thematisation of ambiguity and epistemological uncertainty.

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Querido, Pedro: Mid-twentieth century radio art: The ontological insecurity of the radio text. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies, Jg. 8 (2019), Nr. 2, S. 91-111. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/13140.
@ARTICLE{Querido2019,
 author = {Querido, Pedro},
 title = {Mid-twentieth century radio art: The ontological insecurity of the radio text},
 year = 2019,
 doi = {10.25969/mediarep/13140},
 volume = 8,
 address = {Amsterdam},
 journal = {NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies},
 number = 2,
 pages = {91--111},
}
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