Radio modernisms :
features, cultures and the BBC /
edited by Aasiya Lodhi and Amanda Wrigley.
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| Summary: | This collection interrogates and stimulates deep, cross-disciplinary engagement with the various understandings and interplays of 'radio modernisms' from the early decades of the twentieth century through to the 1950s. Academics from a range of different disciplines explore their common interests in the richness and heterogeneity of BBC Radio's imaginative programming - in terms of sound; as cultural events from specific moments in time; as team creations; as something experienced live in the domestic context; and as cultural works that, in many cases, attracted a certain canonical pedigree. Radio modernisms are, as these chapters demonstrate, a combination of the particular, the contingent, and the contextual. More than a decade after the publication of the first scholarly works to yoke together 'modernism' and 'radio', this collection emphasises the plurality of 'modernisms' as a defining aspect of contemporary BBC historiography. The authors bring multiple lenses to bear - including race, gender, and transnationalism - in order to (re)locate twentieth-century radio programming in broad, expansive contexts. They also underline the dynamic entanglements of radio - and radiogenic feature programmes, in particular - with other kinds of media and cultural forms and formats, reframing radio as a site of and vehicle for remediation and intermediality. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2020.
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| Notes: | "This special issue arises from a one-day conference on the topic of "Radio modernisms : features, cultures and the BBC" that we held on 10 May 2016"--Page 1. Includes bibliographical references and index. Physical description: viii, 133 pages ; 26 cm more |
| ISBN: | 0367367653 9780367367657 |
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