Electrified Voices

Electrified Voices: Medial, Socio-Historical and Cultural Aspects of Voice Transfer
“Sounds like the Sixties: Approaches to Analyze Radio Aesthetic in the Past” was the title of a contribution to the conference “Electrified Voices: Medial, Socio-Historical and Cultural Aspects of Voice-Transfer” from 16 to 18 June 2011 in Konstanz. The conference sought to explore the phenomenon of the electrified voice with interdisciplinary access from media-technological, socio-historical and culture-comparing perspectives. It focussed on three problem fields, which contain social reflection on tasks of electric voice transmission, the mediation of gender- and career-specific voice stereotypes in audio and audio-visual formats and the emergence of these voice stereotypes in national broadcasting and movie cultures. More information on the programme. Concept and organisation: PD Dr. Dmitri Zakharine, Universität Konstanz.