LEADER 03954pam a2200529 i 4500001 9995953763506421 005 20240606074127.0 008 151117t20162016enkab b 001 0 eng^^ 010 2015039572 020 9781107108677 |q(hardback) 020 1107108675 |q(hardback) 035 (NjP)9595376-princetondb 035 |z(NjP)Voyager9595376 035 (OCoLC)ocn921917320 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dYDXCP |dBTCTA |dOCLCO |dOCLCQ |dCDX 042 pcc 043 e-fr--- 050 00 HE8697.85.F8 |bS34 2016 082 00 384.540944/09042 |223 084 HIS010000 |2bisacsh 100 1 Scales, Rebecca, |d1976- |eauthor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015067344 245 10 Radio and the politics of sound in interwar France, 1921-1939 / |cRebecca P. Scales. 264 1 Cambridge, United Kingdom : |bCambridge University Press, |c2016. 264 4 |c©2016 300 ix, 299 pages : |billustrations, map ; |c24 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 Cambridge social and cultural histories 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-290) and index. 505 0 Radio Broadcasting and the Soundscape of Interwar Life -- Disabled Veterans, Radio Citizenship, and the Politics of National Recovery -- Cosmopolitanism and Cacophony : Static, Signals, and the Making of a "Radio Nation" -- Learning by Ear : School Radio, partisan politics, and the Pedagogy of Listening -- Dangerous Airwaves : Propaganda, Surveillance, and the Politics of Listening in French Colonial Algeria -- Conclusion: Paris-Mondial : Globalizing the Voice of France. 520 2 "In December of 1921, three years after the Armistice that ended the First World War, a former army radio transmitter on the Eiffel Tower broadcast France's first public radio program, composed of weather and stock bulletins and a short musical concert performed in a rudimentary studio nearby. A decade later, twenty-five state-run and commercial stations were transmitting radio broadcasts across France. Radio had evolved from the pastime of a few tech-savvy wireless amateurs into a mass media capable of reaching millions of listeners. Urban crowds gathered on city streets and in stadia to listen to fiery propaganda speeches broadcast via loudspeaker, schoolchildren clustered around radio receivers in their classrooms, and families tuned in to music and news from the comforts of their living rooms. By 1936, the composer and music critic Emile Vuillermoz could write in the illustrated weekly Le Miroir du monde that French audiences were 'gorging themselves tirelessly in uninterrupted listening to radio, sound films, and the phonograph'"-- |cProvided by publisher. 650 0 Radio broadcasting |xPolitical aspects |zFrance |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Radio broadcasting |xSocial aspects |zFrance |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Sound |xPolitical aspects |zFrance |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Sound |xSocial aspects |zFrance |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Mass media |xPolitical aspects |zFrance |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Mass media |xSocial aspects |zFrance |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Politics and culture |zFrance |xHistory |y20th century. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010107399 651 0 France |xPolitics and government |y1914-1940. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051485 651 0 France |xSocial life and customs |y20th century. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051506 830 0 Cambridge social and cultural histories 852 0 |bf |hHE8697.85.F8 |iS34 2016 902 kl |bs |6a |7m |dv |f1 |e20160415 904 kl |ba |hm |cb |e20160415 914 (OCoLC)ocn921917320 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20240605 |eprocessed |f921917320 956 42 |3Cover image |uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811071/08677/cover/9781107108677.jpg