Radio for the Millions

Radio for the Millions
Title Radio for the Millions PDF eBook
Author Isabel Huacuja Alonso
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 497
Release 2023-01-03
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 023155656X

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Co-winner, 2023 AIPS Book Prize, American Institute of Pakistan Studies Finalist, 2023 Richard Wall Memorial Award, Theatre Library Association From news about World War II to the broadcasting of music from popular movies, radio played a crucial role in an increasingly divided South Asia for more than half a century. Radio for the Millions examines the history of Hindi-Urdu radio during the height of its popularity from the 1930s to the 1980s, showing how it created transnational communities of listeners. Isabel Huacuja Alonso argues that despite British, Indian, and Pakistani politicians’ efforts to usurp the medium for state purposes, radio largely escaped their grasp. She demonstrates that the medium enabled listeners and broadcasters to resist the cultural, linguistic, and political agendas of the British colonial administration and the subsequent independent Indian and Pakistani governments. Rather than being merely a tool of nation building in South Asia, radio created affective links that defied state agendas, policies, and borders. It forged an enduring transnational soundscape, even after the 1947 Partition had made a united India a political impossibility. Huacuja Alonso traces how people engaged with radio across news, music, and drama broadcasts, arguing for a more expansive definition of what it means to listen. She develops the concept of “radio resonance” to understand how radio relied on circuits of oral communication such as rumor and gossip and to account for the affective bonds this “talk” created. By analyzing Hindi film-song radio programs, she demonstrates how radio spurred new ways of listening to cinema. Drawing on a rich collection of sources, including newly recovered recordings, listeners’ letters to radio stations, original interviews with broadcasters, and archival documents from across three continents, Radio for the Millions rethinks assumptions about how the medium connects with audiences.

Popular Science

Popular Science
Title Popular Science PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 272
Release 1948-08
Genre
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Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.

Popular Science

Popular Science
Title Popular Science PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 308
Release 1949-11
Genre
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Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.

The Adventures of Maqroll

The Adventures of Maqroll
Title The Adventures of Maqroll PDF eBook
Author Álvaro Mutis
Publisher
Pages 392
Release 1995
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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Four novellas featuring Maqroll, an international adventurer. One moment he is smuggling arms for liberation groups, the next digging for gold in the jungles of Peru, nearly getting himself killed by his woman, gone mad. The tale of a man without a country who recognizes no law, but that of fortune. By the author of Maqroll, a Colombian-born Mexican.

Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts

Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts
Title Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts PDF eBook
Author United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher
Pages 268
Release 1962
Genre World politics
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Popular Science

Popular Science
Title Popular Science PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 274
Release 1949-12
Genre
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Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.

Radio Broadcast

Radio Broadcast
Title Radio Broadcast PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 774
Release 1922
Genre Radio
ISBN

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