Purposeful Play: Women Radio Artists in Canadian Campus and Community Radio
Studies show that women are under-represented in Canadian campus and community radio. Based on ethnographic research and survey data, this article posits a theory of "purposeful play," a set of strategies employed by women radio artists to create community and find their voices on the air.
In and Out of the Sound Studio : Introduction
In the introduction to this special issue of Intersections, Andra McCartney and Ellen Waterman reflect on In and Out of the Sound Studio, an inter-university ethnographic research project funded by the SSHRC between 2001 and 2005. The research team studied ideas and practices of contemporary Canadian soundmakers, aiming to address the relative invisibility and inaudibility of women, and thinking about ways in which sound technologies and practices are gendered. In their essay, the authors discuss the relationships found among the terms gender, sound, and technology in terms of terminology, aesthetics, mentoring, methodology and theory. Contributions by McCartney, Diamond, Laplante, Labrosse, Marsh, and Bosma are discussed.
Sound, Image, and Social Space: Rock Video and Media Reconstruction
Im The Image Think of it. Elvis before ~7Varhol. Or even Elvis before Ed Sullivan. Chuck Berry before the l3eatles. Marlon Brando before Marlon Brando. What is it that gives these historic images such mysterious and magical coherence? They haunt our cultural present and topography: but if you look at them, they’re very distant, very other. For us their Difference and their coherence are deeply connected. They radiate the purity of a style of an era when sound, image, desire, refusal, dance, age, and the pocketbook appear to be perfectly conjoined. They form the first perfect myth in the cacophonous constellation of what we now know officially as &dquo;popular culture.&dquo; In their original form they remain mysterious, magical. At the same time they reproduce themselves all around us, empowering a set of moving images on the basis of