Radio and the Politics of Sound in Interwar France, 1921-1939

Explores how radio broadcasting and the emerging audio culture transformed the dynamics of French politics during the tumultuous interwar decades.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Radio broadcasting and the soundscape of interwar life; 2. Disabled veterans, radio citizenship, and the politics of national recovery; 3. Cosmopolitanism and cacophony: static, signals, and the making of a 'radio nation'; 4. Learning by ear: popular front politics, school radio, and the pedagogy of listening; 5. Dangerous airwaves: propaganda, surveillance, and the politics of listening in French Colonial Algeria; Conclusion: Paris-Mondial: globalizing the voice of France; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Rebecca P. Scales is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the Rochester Institute of Technology, New York.

Summary

Drawing from a wide range of archival sources, this study illustrates the resonance of radio within early twentieth-century debates. It rejects the idea of radio as a tool for a totalitarian state and instead offers a more nuanced picture of the impact of broadcasting on 1930s politics in interwar France.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Scales, Rebecca P. Scales, Rebecca P. (Rochester Institute of Technol Scales, Rebecca P. (Rochester Institute of Technology Scales
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.02.2016
• EAN: 9781107108677
• ISBN: 978-1-107-10867-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories; Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories; Cambridge Social and Cultural
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries