Bacovia à la Radio en 1954: Affections de la voix et enjeux politiques
Bacovia on the Radio in 1954: Vocal Touches and Political Stakes

Summary/Abstract: Our aim is to start from an analysis of Bacovia’s recorded voice, reading poetry in 1954, and to attempt, on the one hand, to construct a general hypothesis regarding the way in which, in the voices of writers recorded in the early 1950s (there is a whole “batch” of recordings, which, in addition to Bacovia, also includes Blaga, Arghezi, G. Călinescu, and Alice Voinescu) can be identified, materially, the imprint left by the constraints imposed by the totalitarian political authority that managed the invitations to the radio. On the other hand, we will try to capture the specific way in which political emotion is constructed in Bacovia’s vocal exercise, through a change in the speed of speech, which alternates between extreme haste, overlapping sounds to the point of unintelligibility, and a slowing down that produces syllabification and stuttering.

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