Elena Razlogova

Education

Fall 2023

HIST 281 Film in History 
HIST 485/665 Historical Nonfiction Workshop

Book

Articles and Chapters: Algorithms/Music/Radio

“Freeform Radio and the History of Music Streaming.” Preprint. Forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Radio Studies, edited by Michele Hilmes and Andrew Bottomley (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023).– about WFMU’s early experiments in “streaming” music via telephone, gopher, and the web.

with Jonathan Sterne, "Tuning Sound for Infrastructures: Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Cultural Politics of Audio Mastering," Special Issue "Infrastructural Politics," Cultural Studies 35, no. 4-5 (2021): 750-770.

"Provincializing Spotify: Radio, Algorithms and Conviviality,” Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, 18, no. 1 (2020): 29-42. - about WFMU and Free Music Archive

(with Jonathan Sterne) “Machine Learning in Context, or Learning from LANDR: Artificial Intelligence and the Platformization of Music Mastering,” Social Media and Society 5, no. 2 (2019): 1-18.

“Shazam: The Blind Spots of Algorithmic Music Recognition and Recommendation,” in Appified: Culture in the Age of Apps, ed. Jeremy Morris and Sarah Murray (Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, 2018), 257-266.

“The Past and Future of Music Listening: Between Freeform DJs and Recommendation Algorithms,” Radio’s New Wave, ed. Michele Hilmes and Jason Loviglio (New York: Routledge, 2013) - about WFMU’s relationship with music recommendation apps.

Articles and Chapters: Film/Cold War/Decolonization

“Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, the Soviet Union, and Cold War Circuits for African Cinema, 1958–1978,” Black Camera 13, no. 2 (2022): 451–73.

“On Soviet Spoken Cinema,” in Remapping Cold War Media: Institutions, Infrastructures, Networks, Exchanges, ed. Alice Lovejoy and Mari Pajala (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022), 157–75.

“Ascesa e caduta della diplomazia sino-sovietica dei festival cinematografici, 1957-1966 [The Rise and Fall of Sino-Soviet Film Festival Diplomacy, 1957-1966],” trans. Francesco Pitassio, Cinema e Storia: Rivista di studi interdisciplinari 10 (2021): 87–103. In Italian. English original appended at the end.

“An Air Map for World Cinema: Aeroflot as an Infrastructure for Cinematic Internationalism,” Special Issue "The Union of What? Soviet Internationalism Thirty Years after the Fall of the USSR," Russian Review 80, no. 4 (2021): 661–80.

“Cinema in the Spirit of Bandung: The Afro-Asian Film Festival Circuit, 1957-1964,” in The Cultural Cold War and the Global South: Sites of Contest and Communitas, ed. Kerry Bystrom, Monica Popescu, and Katherine Zien (London: Routledge, 2021).

“The Liberation Politics of Live Translation: Global South Cinemas in Soviet Tashkent,” JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 59, no. 4 (2020): 183–88.

“World Cinema at Soviet Festivals: Cultural Diplomacy and Personal Ties,” Studies in European Cinema 17, no. 2 (2020): 140–154.

“The Politics of Translation at Soviet Film Festivals during the Cold War.” SubStance 44, no. 2 (2015): 66–87.

“Listening to the Inaudible Foreign: Simultaneous Translators and Soviet Experience of Foreign Cinema,” Sound, Music, Speech in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema, ed. Lilya Kaganovsky and Masha Salazkina (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014).

Articles and Chapters: Other

(co-authored with Lyell Davies) “Framing the Contested History of Digital Culture,” Radical History Review, no. 117 (Fall 2013): 5–31.

“True Crime Radio and Listener Disenchantment with Network Broadcasting, 1935-1946,” American Quarterly (March 2006).

“DIY Image Management with Zotero,” Perspectives on History, October 2012.