The wireless world : global histories of international radio broadcasting /
Simon J. Potter, David Clayton, Friederike Kind-Kovács, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, Nelson Ribeiro, Rebecca Scales, Andrea L. Stanton.
- First edition.
- 1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations (colour).
- Oxford scholarship online .
- Oxford Academic. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Illustrations -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- About the Authors -- 1. Out of the Ether: The Wireless World and New Histories of International Radio Broadcasting / 2. Technologies of International Radio Broadcasting / Case Study 2.1 Radio Amateurs and 'DX-ing' between the World Wars / Case Study 2.2 'Towers of Prestige': Dutch Transmitters and Public Relations / 3. Institutions, States, and International Broadcasting / Case Study 3.1 British Colonial Broadcasting in the 1940s / Case Study 3.2 Media (and) Revolution: Western Broadcasting in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989 / 4. Radio Wars: Histories of Cross-Border Radio Propaganda / Case Study 4.1 Interwar Radio Propaganda for Arabic-speaking Listeners / Case Study 4.2 News, Propaganda, and British and American International Broadcasting during the Second World War / 5. Broadcasting as Internationalism / Case Study 5.1 International Broadcasting for a Pluri-Continental Nation? Portuguese Colonial Broadcasting / Case Study 5.2 The Song of the Trojan Horse: Radio Luxembourg and Allied Propaganda at the End of the Second World War / 6. Programmes, Soft Power, and Public Diplomacy / Case Study 6.1 Dramatic and Literary Programming on the BBC Arabic Service / Case Study 6.2 'Is Everybody Happy?': Eddy Startz's Happy Station / 7. Tuning-in to the World: International Broadcasting and its Audiences / Case Study 7.1 Listening to the BBC in Neutral Portugal during the Second World War / Case Study 7.2 Who (Else) is Listening? RIAS in the Early Cold War / 8. The Soundscapes of the Wireless World / Case Study 8.1 Costes and Bellonte's Transatlantic Flight: Tuning-in to a Global Radio Event / Case Study 8.2 Jammed Soundscapes in Eastern Europe, c. 1948-1959 / 9. Afterword: The Wireless World in the Age of Wi-Fi / Timeline of Key Dates -- Further Reading -- Index. Simon J. Potter -- David Clayton -- Rebecca Scales -- Vincent Kuitenbrouwer -- Nelson Ribeiro -- David Clayton -- Friederike Kind-Kovács -- Vincent Kuitenbrouwer -- Andrea L. Stanton -- Simon J. Potter -- Friederike Kind-Kovács -- Nelson Ribeiro -- Simon J. Potter -- Simon J. Potter -- Andrea L. Stanton -- Vincent Kuitenbrouwer -- Rebecca Scales -- Nelson Ribeiro -- Friederike Kind-Kovács -- Andrea L. Stanton -- Rebecca Scales -- David Clayton -- Vincent Kuitenbrouwer --
This book sets out a new research agenda for the history of international broadcasting, and for radio history more generally. It examines global and transnational histories of long-distance wireless broadcasting, combining perspectives from international history, media and cultural history, the history of technology, and sound studies. It is a genuinely co-written book, the result of more than five years of collaboration. Bringing together their knowledge of a wide range of different countries, languages, and archives, the co-authors show how broadcasters and states deployed international broadcasting as a tool of international communication and persuasion. They also demonstrate that by paying more attention to audiences, programmes, and soundscapes, historians of international broadcasting can make important contributions to wider debates in social and cultural history. Exploring the idea of a 'wireless world', a globe connected, both in imagination and reality, by radio, this book sheds new light on the transnational connections created by international broadcasting. Bringing together all periods of international broadcasting within a single analytical frame, including the pioneering days of wireless, the Second World War, the Cold War, and the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, it reveals key continuities and transformations. It looks at how wireless was shaped by internationalist ideas about the use of broadcasting to promote world peace and understanding, at how empires used broadcasting to perpetuate colonialism, and at how anti-colonial movements harnessed radio as a weapon of decolonization.
9780191955426
10.1093/oso/9780192864987.001.0001 DOI
Radio broadcasting. International broadcasting. International broadcasting--History. Wireless communication systems. Telecommunication systems.