Patric R. Spence, Kenneth A. Lachlan, America L. Edwards
{"title":"We Interrupt This Program, This Is an Emergency: Revisiting the Role of Radio in a Crisis","authors":"Patric R. Spence, Kenneth A. Lachlan, America L. Edwards","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2021.2023539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2021.2023539","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47572982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sounding the Nation, Sounding the Revolution: Music and Radio Broadcasting in Post-colonial Mozambique (1975-1986)","authors":"Marco Roque de Freitas","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2021.2019745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2021.2019745","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article aims to identify the sounds, editorial policies and values promoted by Radio Moçambique (RM) during the so-called “socialist period” (1975–1986). Given the high illiteracy rate in the country, RM became the primary medium for informing the populations of FRELIMO’s ideology – the ruling party within a single-party regime – and for spreading the values related to the “new Mozambican man” project. Building on Marissa Moorman’s “sonorous capitalism” concept (2008), this article explores the place of music in promoting and anticipating political and cultural changes in post-colonial Mozambique.","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":"29 1","pages":"80 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47711475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Broadcasting and the Portuguese Empire: The case of São Tomé and Príncipe","authors":"Sílvio Santos","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2021.2023537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2021.2023537","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The colonial essence of the Portuguese nation was one of the pillars of Estado Novo (1933–1974). During this period, the media were largely used as a tool for promoting the cohesion of the territories, firstly embodying an Imperial mystique, and after the second World War, arguing for the exceptionalism of Portuguese colonialization and fighting enemy propaganda. However, contrary to other European empires, Portugal never had a consistent and articulated policy for using radio for these purposes. This article analyses the case of São Tomé and Príncipe, the smallest Portuguese colony in Africa and argues that the new strategy that was experimented in the archipelago in the late 60’s was characterized by a lack of organization and investment that curtailed any chances of success against competitor broadcasts. Based on archival research and interviews with former radio professionals, the case of São Tomé is presented as an example of a frail global articulation that characterized the Imperial Portuguese broadcasting strategy during this period, while it deepens the knowledge on the development of radio in the former Portuguese colonies.","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":"29 1","pages":"136 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42412329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editor’s Remarks: Learning from History and Recognizing Propaganda","authors":"Tony R. DeMars","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2022.2055066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2022.2055066","url":null,"abstract":"This issue of the Journal, of Radio & Audio Media fits well with our current times and readers should find familiar themes that are timely for contemporary media research. Co-editor Anne MacLennan and guest editor Nelson Ribeiro have selected a strong variety of research built around our symposium theme “Broadcasting in (De)Colonial Settings.” One of the interesting components of our special symposium issue is that the articles cover different regions and different time periods (colonial/ postcolonial) but all point to the idea of international connections between broadcasting systems in different world regions and countries, not only under colonialism but also in more recent decades. As scholars, we should have an ability to recognize propaganda compared to neutral facts, yet the average person may be less engaged in recognition of or concerns about what media and information effects can be within their society. Spiral of Silence theory, defined as “the tendency of people not to speak up about policy issues in public—or among their family, friends, and work colleagues—when they believe their own point of view is not widely shared” (Hampton et al., 2014, p. 3), is just one of the various means we can use to demonstrate how certain voices within any given discourse can be minimized. Our guest editor contributes an important article to this edition. Nelson Ribeiro is the principal investigator of the project “Broadcasting in the Portuguese Empire: Colonialism, Nationalism, Identity” funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation and the European Union, and this relationship connects to why he is with us as guest editor of the symposium. In his article, Ribeiro shows how Portugal, under dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, failed to recognize the importance of radio in the 1930s, leading to dependence on colonial stations for the dissemination of colonialism. Instead of the government, private radio clubs mostly owned the stations set up in the African territories under Portuguese control (Ribeiro, 2022). Continuing the international and historical angle, Morten Michelsen reveals ways sound was used as a means of enculturation as much as it was as information and entertainment. Michelson draws on his research as JOURNAL OF RADIO & AUDIO MEDIA 2022, VOL. 29, NO. 1, 1–4 https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2022.2055066","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":"29 1","pages":"1 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41833499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Polycentric Broadcasting Model: Radio and the Promotion of Portuguese Colonialism","authors":"Nelson Ribeiro","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2021.2005601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2021.2005601","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article demonstrates how Portugal lacked a true policy of imperial broadcasting which led it to become dependent on colonial stations for the dissemination of colonialism. The broadcasters established in the Portuguese Empire dedicated significant airtime to the dissemination of Portugal’s colonial mission but also promoted local identities with programming echoing the lifestyle of the colonial elites. Thus, the article argues that while the Portuguese authorities considered the cultural expressions and identities of the white residents in Africa as peripheral, these perceived themselves as part of a new devolved center. This ‘peripheral centre’ gained particular ‘visibility’ on the airwaves.","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":"29 1","pages":"10 - 25"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46835970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building an Imperial Broadcasting Network as the Empire Disintegrated – The Birth of Radio in the French sub-Saharan African Colonies during Decolonization","authors":"Thomas Leyris","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2022.2030742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2022.2030742","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Whereas France owned the second most important empire in the world in 1945, the colonial domination paradoxically leaned very little on radio broadcasting. It was not until 1954 that the French governement, under the impulsion of Pierre Schaeffer, inventor of the “musique concrète,” launched a strong effort to build an overseas broadcasting network. However, that lasting endeavor took place while the French African colonies went into a phase of quick evolution toward independence. It immediately challenged the radiophonic project that colonial authorities had designed and forced French and Africans stakeholders to adapt their strategy according to the new context.","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":"29 1","pages":"120 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45061443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between Post-Autocratic and Post-War Broadcasters: Comparing Public Radio in Indonesia and Germany","authors":"Masduki","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2022.2045296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2022.2045296","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article assesses the models of Indonesia and Germany’s public radio and particularly compares the two countries’ policies regarding their broadcasters. It begins by tracing the history of the two countries’ former state-run radio and the influence of political parallelism on the radio governance. This study applies qualitative methods and finds German and Indonesian public radio has been strongly influenced by changes in their countries’ political systems. Public radio in both countries experienced similar trips in post-autocracies but reaching different destinations. Germany’s radio has experienced rapid changes and enjoyed editorial freedom. Meanwhile, Indonesia’s public radio blends government and public interventions.","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":"29 1","pages":"156 - 172"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45273868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Race and Radio: Pioneering Black Broadcasters in New Orleans","authors":"Will Studdert","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2022.2064622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2022.2064622","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":"29 1","pages":"177 - 180"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47580221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dutch Speaking to Dutch. Broadcasts from the Netherlands to Indonesia during the Decolonization War (1945–1949)","authors":"V. Kuitenbrouwer","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2021.2023538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2021.2023538","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Dutch international radio broadcaster Radio Nederland Wereldomroep (RNW) was founded in 1947, during the decolonization war in Indonesia. This paper explores the nature of the broadcasts to Indonesia in the early years of RNW. It is argued that these broadcasts must be seen in the context of the Dutch violent military effort to reestablish colonial rule in Southeast Asia. Moreover, this broadcasting strategy, which was mainly aimed at reaching out to white agents of empire in the Indonesian archipelago, can be seen as a continuation of broadcasting practices during the late colonial period in the 1930s, when Dutch were speaking to Dutch.","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":"29 1","pages":"42 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43970137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Radio Broadcasting and Indonesian Nationalism: During the Last Decade of Dutch Colonialism","authors":"Darmanto, Masduki, Hari Wiryawan","doi":"10.1080/19376529.2022.2035730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2022.2035730","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper discusses how radio during the last decade of Dutch colonial era had served as an agent of nationalism in Indonesia. This paper applies a literature study using a historical approach that focused on Soloche Radio Vereeniging (SRV) and the Eastern Radio network, which were operational from the 1930s to the 1940s. The results suggest that SRV and Eastern Radio network during the Dutch colonial period served as tools of cultural resistance against the domination of European culture. Radio broadcasting was an alternative form of cultural diplomacy that promoted the birth of Indonesia, which had become free from colonialism.","PeriodicalId":44611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radio & Audio Media","volume":"29 1","pages":"104 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44859840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}