Chapter 10 Early radio in late colonial India
Historiography, geography, audiences
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Duggal, Vebhuti
Hoene, Christin
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EnglishAbstract
As previous research on the role of the radio in (post)colonial India has shown, radio broadcasting is deeply implicated in the narratives of empire and postcolonial nation-building. Radio thus becomes seemingly synonymous with the imperial project during colonialism and with the national project in the postcolonial period. In this chapter, we shift scholarly attention to public discourse and audience formation during the early years of radio in colonial India (1925 and 1936). We analyse how early radio impacted people’s perception of space and place by re-structuring the geographies of ‘home’, ‘world’, and ‘empire’. We also show how the radio affected audiences along the rural-urban divide, re-configuring their understandings of sound, technology and listening.
Book
Asian Sound CulturesKeywords
Asian; Christin; Cultures; Haukamp; Hoene; Iris; Matyn; Noise; Smith; Sound; Technology; Voice; Ethnomusicology; PerformanceISBN
9780367698911, 9780367698973Publisher
Taylor & FrancisPublisher website
http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/Publication date and place
2023Imprint
RoutledgeClassification
Music
Theory of music & musicology
Regional studies