Rebecca P. Scales

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

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores how radio broadcasting and the emerging audio culture transformed the dynamics of French politics during the tumultuous interwar decades.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 607g
• ISBN-13: 9781107108677
• ISBN-10: 1107108675
• Artikelnr.: 43858252

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.