Radio and the Politics of Sound in Interwar France, 1921–1939

Rebecca P. Scales (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2016
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-10867-7 (ISBN)

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Drawing from a wide range of archival sources, this study illustrates the resonance of radio within early twentieth-century debates. It rejects the idea of radio as a tool for a totalitarian state and instead offers a more nuanced picture of the impact of broadcasting on 1930s politics in interwar France.

In December 1921, France broadcast its first public radio program from a transmitter on the Eiffel Tower. In the decade that followed, radio evolved into a mass media capable of reaching millions. Crowds flocked to loudspeakers on city streets to listen to propaganda, children clustered around classroom radios, and families tuned in from their living rooms. Radio and the Politics of Sound in Interwar France, 1921–1939 examines the impact of this auditory culture on French society and politics, revealing how broadcasting became a new platform for political engagement, transforming the act of listening into an important, if highly contested, practice of citizenship. Rejecting models of broadcasting as the weapon of totalitarian regimes or a tool for forging democracy from above, the book offers a more nuanced picture of the politics of radio by uncovering competing interpretations of listening and diverse uses of broadcast sound that flourished between the world wars.

Rebecca P. Scales is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the Rochester Institute of Technology, New York.

Introduction; 1. Radio broadcasting and the soundscape of interwar life; 2. Disabled veterans, radio citizenship, and the politics of national recovery; 3. Cosmopolitanism and cacophony: static, signals, and the making of a 'radio nation'; 4. Learning by ear: popular front politics, school radio, and the pedagogy of listening; 5. Dangerous airwaves: propaganda, surveillance, and the politics of listening in French Colonial Algeria; Conclusion: Paris-Mondial: globalizing the voice of France; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.2.2016
Reihe/Serie	Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
Zusatzinfo	12 Halftones, unspecified; 12 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 235 mm
Gewicht	580 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien
ISBN-10	1-107-10867-5 / 1107108675
ISBN-13	978-1-107-10867-7 / 9781107108677
Zustand	Neuware