Book ID: CBB003700829

Radio Soundings: South Africa and the Black Modern (2019)

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Gunner, Liz (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 242
Language: English

Zulu Radio in South Africa is one of the most far-reaching and influential media in the region, currently attracting around 6.67 million listeners daily. While the public and political role of radio is well-established, what is less understood is how it has shaped culture by allowing listeners to negotiate modern identities and fast-changing lifestyles. Liz Gunner explores how understandings of the self, family, and social roles were shaped through this medium of voice and mediated sound. Radio was the unseen literature of the auditory, the drama of the airwaves, and thus became a conduit for many talents squeezed aside by apartheid repression. Besides Winnie Mahlangu and K. E. Masinga, among other talents, the exiles Lewis Nkosi and Bloke Modisane made a network of identities and conversations which stretched from the heart of Harlem to the American South, drawing together the threads of activism and creativity from both Black America and the African continent at a critical moment of late empire.

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Review Marissa J. Moorman (October 2020) Review of "Radio Soundings: South Africa and the Black Modern". Technology and Culture (pp. 1254-1256). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Petrinca, Ruxandra
Alekna, John Norman
Christine Ehardt
Asseraf, Arthur
Miller, James
Walewska, Joanna
Concepts
Methods of communication; media
Radio
Technology and culture
Communication technology
Broadcasting, radio and television
Technology and society
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century, early
20th century
Modern
19th century
Prehistory
Places
Americas
China
Great Britain
Middle and Near East
Jamaica (Caribbean)
Haiti (Caribbean)
Institutions
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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