Modernizing a nation through its radio and television industry: RCA Victor in Chile, 1928-1973

IF 1 1区历史学 Q1 HISTORY

History and Technology Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI:10.1080/07341512.2021.2004008

Francisco Garrido, Ricardo Paredes

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The RCA Victor company in Chile portrayed itself as a participant in the nation’s progress. Its success was part of a larger governmental plan to boost the industrial capacities of the country, during a period marked by political polarization and extensive demographic changes in terms of rural to urban migration, the formation of a working middle class, and greater investment in education. Their electronic devices were intimately linked to this broader socio-political context, where both state and partner industries presented technological production in terms of national pride and progress. Via a material culture analysis and archival sources related to the history and production of RCA Victor in Chile, we show and argue that its technological devices were shaped actively by and participated in the complexities and contradictions of the social and political changes of the era.

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通过广播和电视产业实现国家现代化:智利的RCA Victor, 1928-1973

智利的RCA Victor公司将自己描绘成国家进步的参与者。它的成功是政府提高国家工业能力的更大计划的一部分，在一个以政治两极分化和广泛的人口变化为特征的时期，从农村到城市的移民，工人中产阶级的形成，以及更多的教育投资。他们的电子设备与更广泛的社会政治背景密切相关，在这种背景下，国家和合作行业都以民族自豪感和进步的方式展示技术生产。通过物质文化分析和与智利RCA Victor的历史和生产相关的档案资料，我们展示并论证了其技术设备是由时代社会和政治变化的复杂性和矛盾所积极塑造并参与的。

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History and Technology HISTORY-

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1.60

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期刊介绍： History and Technology serves as an international forum for research on technology in history. A guiding premise is that technology—as knowledge, practice, and material resource—has been a key site for constituting the human experience. In the modern era, it becomes central to our understanding of the making and transformation of societies and cultures, on a local or transnational scale. The journal welcomes historical contributions on any aspect of technology but encourages research that addresses this wider frame through commensurate analytic and critical approaches.