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The DJ Who “Brought Down” The USSR: The Life and Legacy of Seva Novgorodsev Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Sean Brennan
Published in Journal of Radio & Audio Media (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Bush Podpreneurs: How Rural Women Podcast Producers Are Building Digital and Social Connectivity Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Maria Rae, Kirsten Diprose
Digital media has the potential to empower rural women who are increasingly producing their own independent podcasts. This research examines the opportunities and challenges that podcasts hold for ...
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Community Radio in the Era of Convergence: A Case of Zimbabwe Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Stanley Tsarwe, Makhosi Nkanyiso Sibanda
While globally, conventional radio faces stiff competition from streaming and on-demand content, the Africa radio remain driven by resilient local interest. The global drive towards digitisation, c...
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The BBC and Soft Power at Home: Promoting Democracy Through The Archers Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Timothy Vercellotti
Nations export cultural and political values through news and entertainment in attempts to wield “soft power” abroad. The BBC, long viewed as a source of the United Kingdom’s soft power internation...
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Media Format Matters: User Engagement with Audio, Text and Video Tweets Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Jamy Li, Mohsen Ensafjoo
A dataset of shortform audio-only tweets with video and text controls is used to analyze whether a tweet’s media format and topic influence user engagement with the tweet. Audio tweets were more en...
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Inheritance and Inhabitants: The Material Place-Making Practices of Community Radio Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Bridget Backhaus
Community radio, a “third space” outside of commercial and state-based broadcasting, contributes to democratizing media access. Physical space plays a key role in this, yet the materiality of commu...
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Pilgrim on BBC Radio 4: Dark Fantasy, Public Service Broadcasting, and Transmedia Possibilities Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Leslie Grace McMurtry
While much scholarship has focused on BBC radio drama of the first half of the 20th century, very little to date has dealt seriously with the first decades of the 21st century. Sebastian Baczkiewic...
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Rewriting the Beginning of BBC Audio Drama History- Three Women Playwrights and Their Contribution to British Radio Drama Culture Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Tim Crook
For most of the first hundred years of the history of the BBC Richard Hughes (1924 & 1928) has been celebrated as the first author of an original radio play and other male dramatists or directors s...
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Editor’s Remarks: Historical and Modern Impact of Radio and Podcasting Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Tony R. DeMars
Published in Journal of Radio & Audio Media (Vol. 30, No. 2, 2023)
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BBC Radio 1922-2022: Navigating the Waves of Change Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Josephine Coleman, Janey Gordon
Published in Journal of Radio & Audio Media (Vol. 30, No. 2, 2023)
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Everybody’s Scrapbook: The BBC, Radiogenic Retrospection and the Mediatisation of Memory Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Kate Lacey
Responding to the wave of retrospection around the BBC’s centenary, this article explores the BBC radio Scrapbook series (1933–74) to reflect on the mediation and mediatization of anniversaries fro...
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Radio Fandom and Informal Education – The Archers as a Case Study Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Helen M. Burrows
BBC Radio’s The Archers original remit was to educate British farmers following WWII but gained a wider audience as popular entertainment. Now less formally about information and education, it stil...
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Retelling the story of the early BBC through jazz broadcasting 1922 - 1932 Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Tim Wall
This research demonstrates that jazz programming on the BBC was a major form of output in its first decade, and a vehicle to achieve important institutional objectives. It pushes us to rethink the ...
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Black London (BBC GLR 1991-1993) the Importance of a BBC Radio Archive for Black British People and Scholars Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2024-01-09 David Dunkley Gyimah
Published in Journal of Radio & Audio Media (Vol. 30, No. 2, 2023)
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The Birth of Children’s Radio at the BBC in 1922: How 2ZY in Manchester Launched the First Kiddies Corner, Influenced by American Radio Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Zara Healy
The first BBC radio programme for children in Britain was broadcast on November 15, 1922, by 2ZY in Manchester, on the second day of the BBC’s operation. 2ZY was run by wireless manufacturer, Metro...
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Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Jason Lee Guthrie
Published in Journal of Radio & Audio Media (Vol. 30, No. 2, 2023)
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The Impact of the British Broadcasting Corporation on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Gladstone Murray, Special Committees on Radio Broadcasting, and the Canadian Radio League Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Anne F. MacLennan, Christine Rose Cooling
The British Broadcasting Corporation’s impact on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation coincides with the arrival of Major Gladstone Murray to take on the position of General Manager, lobbyists for...
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Live from Here: Comparing the Programming of Rural and Urban Public Radio Stations Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Jr. Peter P. Nieckarz, Anthony Andrew Hickey
This paper is an examination of the vitality of U.S. public radio stations in rural areas. Previous empirical research suggests that the increased presence of commercial underwriting and listener d...
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(Non)radio Drama from the Perspective of Ergodicity and Recipience Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Eliza Matusiak
Published in Journal of Radio & Audio Media (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Defending the Status Quo: Prevalence of System Justification Attitudes in the Radio Industry Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Patricia A. Williamson, Heather E. Polinsky
This study employs system justification theory to investigate how current and former radio broadcasting professionals perceive the equity and fairness of the industry’s homophilous hiring and emplo...
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Community Voice and Participation in Climate Change Communication Through Community Radio in Malawi Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Chimwemwe Richard Chavinda
This study examines the role of community radio in increasing climate change awareness in Malawi. The article broadly reaffirms the importance of community radio in Africa in democratizing media ac...
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A New Era or Error? Community Radio Licensing in Zimbabwe: Issues, Dynamics, and Sustainability Challenges Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Makhosi Nkanyiso Sibanda, Buhle Nkomo
ABSTRACT The Zimbabwean government has been criticized across scholarship for its lack of sincerity in ensuring media plurality, especially in the radio broadcasting sector. In 2020, when community radio stations were granted licenses for the first-time in the post-Mugabe era, the Mnangagwa-led government was hailed for ushering a “new dispensation” in broadcasting. The licensing of community radio
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Voice of the Indigenous Community Nudging Development: Case of Asur Community Radio Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Swetabh Pandey, Munmun Ghosh
ABSTRACT This research explores the significance of local radio in preserving and assisting indigenous communities and languages in the tribal region of Jharkhand, India. The study highlights the involvement and engagements of “Asur Radio,” a community radio in the interest of the tribal community named – Asur. This study further explores how a community radio started by a primitive vulnerable tribe
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BBC Radio in Scotland - National, Regional and Local: Mission Impossible? Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Aleksandar Kocic
Published in Journal of Radio & Audio Media (Vol. 30, No. 2, 2023)
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Editor’s Remarks: History, Impact and Entertainment: Radio and Audio Continue to Engage Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Tony R. DeMars
Published in Journal of Radio & Audio Media (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2023)
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Symposium Introduction: Multilingual, Multicultural, Migrant, and Diasporic Radio, Audio, and Podcasting Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Anne F. MacLennan, Masudul Biswas
Published in Journal of Radio & Audio Media (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2023)
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Oakland’s Mayan Diaspora Overcomes Language Barriers and Finds Refuge in Radio B’alam Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Jesús Ayala
ABSTRACT Over one-million immigrants of Mayan descent live in the United States, but unlike other ethnic groups, Mayan diasporas struggle to create visibility, political and social capital, and acceptance through media. This case study used a qualitative methodology to analyze how Radio B’alam, the first Mam-language radio program in the U.S., emerged during a global pandemic to fill a community’s
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BBC Asian Network: The Cultural Production of Diversity Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Claudia Bernadette Bawole
Published in Journal of Radio & Audio Media (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2023)
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Un Bon Voyage Sonore: Avoiding Listener Discomfort in Immersive Audio Documentary Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Abigail Wincott
ABSTRACT This article interrogates claims made in the emerging discourse of immersive audio documentary that spatial sound is more real, allowing the listener to step into another space, and understand the world better. However, the analysis shows makers are failing to make good on these claims. Use of the technical affordances of spatial audio is limited and producers enroll concepts of the real and
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Preliminary Study on the Gratifications Received by Listeners of Daily News Podcasts Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Chad Whittle
ABSTRACT Previous podcast studies have examined motivations and gratifications for why consumers listen to podcasts, but there has been very little examination into why listeners choose to listen to daily news podcasts specifically and what gratifications they receive from consuming these podcasts. This preliminary study aimed to examine why audiences choose to listen to daily news podcasts and what
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Podcasting as Advertising Channel: Understanding the Context Effect Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Rang Wang, Sylvia Chan-Olmsted
ABSTRACT The engaging and relational nature of podcast listening creates a special media environment for brands. Guided by media context effect perspectives, this study employs a national survey to examine how content engagement, host–audience relationship, and advertising format associate with listeners’ brand attitudes, as moderated by advertising receptivity. The findings reveal that content engagement
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A Field Trial of a Hybrid In-Car Radio Application Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Wendy Van den Broeck, Iris Jennes
ABSTRACT Hybrid radio has the potential to transform people’s in-car radio experience, as it offers a multitude of new features. This article discusses an in the field trial of an in-car hybrid radio service, consisting of different features like interactive menus, voice control and time shifting. The article addresses the methodological test setup and results of the field trial with 14 test-users
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The Sherman Lawton Legacy: Pioneer Broadcast Educator Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2023-01-14 Mark Smith
ABSTRACT Pioneer educators who labored to elevate broadcasting to the status of a respected discipline in higher education have received limited historical study. The storied academic career of Sherman Paxton Lawton ascended in one of the most transformative eras in mass communication history, the introduction of radio and television. This article chronicles not only Lawton’s achievements in broadcast
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Reclaiming the Airwaves: Exploring the Motivations for FM Radio Listening during COVID-19 Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2023-01-08 Devadas Menon
ABSTRACT Guided by the uses and gratifications theory, the current study examines the motivations behind FM radio listenership during the COVID-19 pandemic. A survey was conducted among 410 FM radio users from India. The result identified six motivations behind FM radio listenership, i.e., Information seeking, Relaxing-entertainment, Diversion, Companionship, Convenient multitasking, and Passing time
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Vernacular Radio and the Practice of Resistance: Community Radio as a Cultural Tool to Engage on Health and Social Identities among Marginalized Communities in Ghana Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2023-01-08 Emmanuel Essel, Eliza Govender
ABSTRACT This article explores how local values and social identities can be integrated into Ghana’s formal COVID-19 public health communication interventions using community radio. The study adopted a qualitative approach using focus group discussions, in-depth interviews, and reflexive thematic analysis. The ten-step participatory planning and action model to involve the community in the social change
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Crowd Pleasers: Exploring Motivations and Measures of Success among Independent Sports Podcasters Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Matthew P. Taylor
ABSTRACT This study augments seminal podcasting literature by exploring the motivations of independent sports podcasters specifically. The study’s in-depth interviews produced findings that are consistent with prior research about the value of listener feedback, relationships, and a sense of community; however, new considerations are introduced including the ease of podcasting from both a technological
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A Media-Specific Analysis of Candlelight Poetry on the Radio. The World’s Longest-running Radio Poetry Show Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Kila van der Starre
ABSTRACT Since 1967 Jan van Veen has been reciting poems for the Dutch radio program Candlelight, the world’s longest-running radio poetry show. Candlelight poems almost always contain end rhymes and revolve around emotional themes. This article examines Candlelight poetry specifically as radio poetry. Three aspects are explored: the wide reach, the accessibility and the meaningful relationship between
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Assessing the Role of Items Songs from Bollywood Movies in Delineating Gender Roles in India Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Ruchi Ravi Shewade
ABSTRACT Crimes against women are common in India due to oppressive cultural norms. Bollywood offers an opportunity to investigate gender role representations. This research examines 20 Bollywood item songs through an intersectional lens. The study is concerned with how aural affordances in item songs delineate oppressive gender roles and violence against women. The study discovered four major themes:
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Balancing the Turbulence: Organizational Values in European Student Radio Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Ari Hautaniemi
ABSTRACT This study explores the cultural values of European student radio stations. It examines student radio organizations’ values based on their managers’ perceptions, using the competing values model of organizational cultures. There are only a few studies done on European student radio, not to mention the lack of research or data on the organizational cultures of student radio stations. The earliest
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Community radio & Info. Dissemination for Development Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Stephen Attuh, Philip Kwaku Kankam
ABSTRACT Community radio represents the opportunity of placing the means of communication in the hands of grassroot people. In the particular case of this study, it was seen as a tool for rural participatory development. It thus provided the need for a study into how community radio is used for sustainable rural development. The study utilized a qualitative research approach to understand the role
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Get the Story Straight: Comparing Narrative and Logical-Scientific Communication to Capture Gen Z’s Interest in Science Podcasts Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Kelsi Opat, Erica Irlbeck, R. Glenn Cummins, Nan Li, Amy E Boren-Alpizar
ABSTRACT Generation Z looks to novel media, including podcasts, to learn of the latest scientific innovations. This study compared the use of logical-scientific (LSC) to narrative (NC) communication in science-based podcasts. Participants listened to a podcast featuring LSC and NC while continuously rating their interest in the podcast. The NC section of the podcast received a higher average interest
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Preserving and Tuning into Radio Stations at Historically Black Colleges and Universities Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Marquita S. Smith, Dorothy M. Bland
ABSTRACT The United States boasts more than 100 historically black colleges and universities, and 29 of those institutions own and operate radio stations targeted for the HBCU Radio Preservation Project. The lack of minority ownership in broadcasting has been a long-standing issue facing the industry. This study focuses on the radio stations targeted for the HBCU Radio Preservation Project, their web
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Editor’s Remarks: Radio, Audio and Podcasting in Dynamic Times Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2022-11-05 Tony R. DeMars
Published in Journal of Radio & Audio Media (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2022)
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Radio and Audio in 2021 Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2022-11-05 Devin Stroink
Published in Journal of Radio & Audio Media (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2022)
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Performing Culture and Problematizing Identity through “Anything for Selena” Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2022-11-04 M. Olguta Vilceanu, Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez
ABSTRACT Podcasts cover a wide range of topics and genres that can be created and developed for diverse and niche audiences. Using an inductive approach, we explore the connections and insights the podcast Anything for Selena offers about parasociality, celebrity grieving, and diasporic Latina/o/x identity, in the context of Selena as a brand. Themes follow acts of performing culture, posthumous branding
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Northern Ireland, the BBC, and Censorship in Thatcher’s Britain Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Mohamed Chamekh
Published in Journal of Radio & Audio Media (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2022)
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The Cultural Work of Community Radio Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2022-09-09 Kacie Hopkins
Published in Journal of Radio & Audio Media (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2022)
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“We are Full and Complex People”: Heterogeneous Commonality, Creativity, and Collaboration in Podcasting Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Jeff Donison
ABSTRACT Group membership under a shared identity marker has intragroup diversity, or ”heterogeneous commonality.” Thus, self-representations within identity groups can elicit different perspectives about, or approaches to, the same topics. This article textually analyzes episodes from Black Canadian Content Creators, My Blackness, My Truth, and Seat at the Table about Black creative collaboration
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Community radio’s amplification of communication for social change Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2022-08-24 Christine Cooling
Published in Journal of Radio & Audio Media (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2022)
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Decoding the Message: Verisimilar Textuality, Paratexts, and Reception Context Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Matthew Killmeier
ABSTRACT This article examines “The Message,” a 2015 audio drama science fiction podcast with a verisimilar narrative that led some listeners to interpret it as nonfiction. It argues the podcast’s use of nonfiction genre conventions, web paratexts, and its reception context contributed to such misinterpretations. It situates “The Message” in context with “The War of the Worlds” and a contemporaneous
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The Use of Market Research and Radio Consultancy in Spanish Music Radio: The Case of Kiss FM (2002-2010) Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Alfredo Arense Gómez, Pablo Garrido-Pintado
ABSTRACT Kiss FM brought a new programming methodology to the radio sector in Spain. Previously, market research tools were used merely for orientation purposes but from 2002 onward the use of music testing and audience panels began to take on a decisive role. In this paper we analyze the application of market research and radio consultancy in music radio in Spain, identifying the reasons for the success
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Editor’s Remarks: Learning from History and Recognizing Propaganda Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Tony R. DeMars
(2022). Editor’s Remarks: Learning from History and Recognizing Propaganda. Journal of Radio & Audio Media: Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 1-4.
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Introduction: Researching (Post)Colonial Broadcasting Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Nelson Ribeiro
(2022). Introduction: Researching (Post)Colonial Broadcasting. Journal of Radio & Audio Media: Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 5-9.
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A Polycentric Broadcasting Model: Radio and the Promotion of Portuguese Colonialism Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Nelson Ribeiro
ABSTRACT The article demonstrates how Portugal lacked a true policy of imperial broadcasting which led it to become dependent on colonial stations for the dissemination of colonialism. The broadcasters established in the Portuguese Empire dedicated significant airtime to the dissemination of Portugal’s colonial mission but also promoted local identities with programming echoing the lifestyle of the
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Between Exoticism and Ethnomusicology: Musical Representations of Greenland and India on European Interwar Radio Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Morten Michelsen
ABSTRACT In this article, I investigate how colonized cultures were presented to “home” radio audiences through sound (music, speech, sound montages) during the inter-war years. The focus is on how a small group of broadcasts containing musical representations of the colonies of Greenland and India afforded the imaginative work and temporary imagined communities to Austrian, Danish, and British radio
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Dutch Speaking to Dutch. Broadcasts from the Netherlands to Indonesia during the Decolonization War (1945–1949) Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Vincent Kuitenbrouwer
ABSTRACT Dutch international radio broadcaster Radio Nederland Wereldomroep (RNW) was founded in 1947, during the decolonization war in Indonesia. This paper explores the nature of the broadcasts to Indonesia in the early years of RNW. It is argued that these broadcasts must be seen in the context of the Dutch violent military effort to reestablish colonial rule in Southeast Asia. Moreover, this broadcasting
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Erased and Misremembered: Exhuming the Colonial Broadcasting of Una Marson Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Yvette Rowe, Anthony Frampton
Abstract Una Marson was a pioneering colonial broadcaster from Jamaica who was the first Black woman to work for the BBC. She produced and presented its Overseas Service programs Calling the West Indies and Caribbean Voices. Recently, scholars have revisited her work, but they have not acknowledged her legacy in a way that befits her accomplishments in radio. We find this observation revealing and
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Radio Broadcasting and Indonesian Nationalism: During the Last Decade of Dutch Colonialism Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Darmanto, Masduki, Hari Wiryawan
ABSTRACT This paper discusses how radio during the last decade of Dutch colonial era had served as an agent of nationalism in Indonesia. This paper applies a literature study using a historical approach that focused on Soloche Radio Vereeniging (SRV) and the Eastern Radio network, which were operational from the 1930s to the 1940s. The results suggest that SRV and Eastern Radio network during the Dutch
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Building an Imperial Broadcasting Network as the Empire Disintegrated – The Birth of Radio in the French sub-Saharan African Colonies during Decolonization Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Thomas Leyris
ABSTRACT Whereas France owned the second most important empire in the world in 1945, the colonial domination paradoxically leaned very little on radio broadcasting. It was not until 1954 that the French governement, under the impulsion of Pierre Schaeffer, inventor of the “musique concrète,” launched a strong effort to build an overseas broadcasting network. However, that lasting endeavor took place
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Broadcasting and the Portuguese Empire: The case of São Tomé and Príncipe Journal of Radio & Audio Media Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Sílvio Correia Santos
ABSTRACT The colonial essence of the Portuguese nation was one of the pillars of Estado Novo (1933–1974). During this period, the media were largely used as a tool for promoting the cohesion of the territories, firstly embodying an Imperial mystique, and after the second World War, arguing for the exceptionalism of Portuguese colonialization and fighting enemy propaganda. However, contrary to other