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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Guest:&lt;/strong&gt; Matthew Kendall on his article &lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt; “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/slavic-review/article/room-for-noise-in-soviet-sound-recording/42CBB2A70C7CE15C5AD575243A9558E7"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;Room for Noise in Soviet Sound Recording&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;” in the Winter 2023 issue of the &lt;em&gt;Slavic Review&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Guest: Matthew Kendall on his article  “Room for Noise in Soviet Sound Recording” in the Winter 2023 issue of the Slavic Review.

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What is noise? And how should we approach it as scholars, critics, and sound artists? These are questions Matthew Kendall treats in his contribution to the forum “<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/slavic-review/issue/1D07C4EA7BD5F5E26412A3A4638FB014">Socialist Sound Worlds</a>.” He says that noise, particularly the scratchy, staticky, distorted noise found in many sound recordings, can tell us a lot. It gives us place, context, personality and even alternative narratives. In the second part of our series on sound and socialism, the Eurasian Knot talked with Matthew about his approach to sound as source, the sound archive, and what a bunch of garbled tape can tell us about sound recording in the Soviet Union.<br />
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Matthew Kendall is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His book project, “Revolutions per Minute,” offers a cultural history of Soviet sound recording through the lens of literary and cinematic production. He co-edited with Gabrielle Cornish the “<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/slavic-review/issue/1D07C4EA7BD5F5E26412A3A4638FB014">Socialist Sound Worlds</a>” and wrote “<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/slavic-review/article/room-for-noise-in-soviet-sound-recording/42CBB2A70C7CE15C5AD575243A9558E7">Room for Noise in Soviet Sound Recording</a>” in the Winter 2023 issue of the Slavic Review.<br />

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The Sound of Socialism, Part 2

The Sound of Socialism, Part 2

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