This talk will focus on a newly launched research project conducted in collaboration with CKUA Radio, Canada’s oldest public radio station. Founded in 1927, CKUA radio was launched by the University of Alberta’s Department of Extension as a form of educational outreach through in-person lecture circuits in rural Alberta. Broadcasting initially from the University of Alberta campus, the station focused from the outset on literary readings, dramatic performances, music concerts, and academic lectures. University faculty continued to develop CKUA radio programming for over 40 years following CKUA’s departure from campus, first under the Radio Service, and then the Department of Radio and Television (RTV). The CKUA archives, both at its downtown Edmonton location and related archives of RTV held at the University of Alberta Archives, offer valuable media and textual records of the station’s role in shaping diverse creative cultures regionally and nationally. This talk will open up questions about the place of literary radio in audiovisual archives as sites of memory and cultural identity worthy of preservation and attention.
Sean Luyk is the Digital Curation Librarian at the University of Alberta Library where he is responsible for the University of Alberta’s Aviary repository, and is a co-investigator on the SpokenWeb project. Sean is an Affiliated Researcher of the Sound Studies Institute, and a Fellow... Read More →
