Julie Cyzewski

Bio

Julie Cyzewski is an Assistant Professor of English at Murray State University. Her current book project, Broadcasting Friendship: Decolonization, Literature, and the BBC, is on the politics and form of literary radio broadcasts from London to the West Indies, South Asia, and Anglophone Africa.

Contributions

The “tribal drum” and Literary Radio: The Postcolonial Poetics of the Transcription Centre’s Africa Abroad

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On June 1, 1963, J. P. Clark’s poem “Agbor Dancer” was recorded for the London-based Transcription Centre’s program Africa Abroad, an English-language radio magazine program distributed for broadcast on multiple African stations. [1] Africa Abroad producer Lewis Nkosi praised the poem and recorded it in its entirety in his review of the anthology Poems from Black Africa, edited by Langston Hughes. [2] In “Agbor Dancer,” the speaker watches a woman dance to drums and juxtaposes the dancer’s...

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