The Wireless World: Global Histories Of International Radio Broadcasting

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Copyright
Preface
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acronyms and Abbreviations
About the Authors
1 | Out of the Ether: The Wireless World and New Histories of International Radio Broadcasting
	Creating the Wireless World
	The Nation-State in the Wireless World
	Echoes of War
	Decolonizing the Wireless World
	The Wireless World in a Digital Age
	Conclusions
2 | Technologies of International Radio Broadcasting
	The Origins and Evolution of Radio Technologies, c. 1900–1930
	Technical (and Political) Preconditions for Connecting to the Wireless World
	From Tubes to Transistors: Components for a Wireless World
	Making Sets Portable and Affordable, Particularly for the World’s Poor
	Conclusions
	Case Study 2.1 | Radio Amateurs and ‘DX-ing’ between the World Wars
	Case Study 2.2 | ‘Towers of Prestige’: Dutch Transmitters and Public Relations
3 | Institutions, States, and International Broadcasting
	The Emergence of International Broadcasting and the Centrality of the State
	International Broadcasters as State Weapons of War
	Broadcasting Institutions during the Cold War
	Conclusions
	Case Study 3.1 | British Colonial Broadcasting in the 1940s
	Case Study 3.2 | Media (and) Revolution: Western Broadcasting in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989
4 | Radio Wars: Histories of Cross-Border Radio Propaganda
	Pioneers of Wireless Propaganda
	Wireless Propaganda and the Second World War
	Wireless Propaganda, the Cold War, and Decolonization
	Conclusions
	Case Study 4.1 | Interwar Radio Propaganda for Arabic-speaking Listeners
	Case Study 4.2 | News, Propaganda, and British and American International Broadcasting during the Second World War
5 | Broadcasting as Internationalism
	Radio and Internationalism in the Wake of the First World War
	The Inequalities of Internationalism
	Music and Propaganda
	A Cold War for People’s Minds: Competing Internationalisms
	Radio and the Promotion of Human Rights
	Conclusions
	Case Study 5.1 | International Broadcasting for a Pluri-Continental Nation?: Portuguese Colonial Broadcasting
	Case Study 5.2 | The Song of the Trojan Horse: Radio Luxembourg and Allied Propaganda at the End of the Second World War
6 | Programmes, Soft Power, and Public Diplomacy
	Relays, Direct Services, and Cultural Propaganda
	The Sound of Violence
	Soft Power, the Cold War, and Decolonization
	Conclusions
	Case Study 6.1 | Dramatic and Literary Programming on the BBC Arabic Service
	Case Study 6.2 | ‘Is Everybody Happy?’: Eddy Startz’s Happy Station
7 | Tuning-in to the World: International Broadcasting and its Audiences
	Citizens of the World? Interwar Audiences for International Broadcasting
	Occupied Listening during the ‘War of Words’
	The ‘Right to Listen’: Cold War Audiences between East and West . . . and the World
	Conclusions
	Case Study 7.1 | Listening to the BBC in Neutral Portugal during the Second World War
	Case Study 7.2 | Who (Else) is Listening?: RIAS in the Early Cold War
8 | The Soundscapes of the Wireless World
	Radio Sounds within the Acoustic Environment
	Radio Sounds within the Aural Terrain of Radio Studios, Stations, and Social Contexts
	Conclusions
	Case Study 8.1 | Costes and Bellonte’s Transatlantic Flight: Tuning-in to a Global Radio Event
	Case Study 8.2 | Jammed Soundscapes in Eastern Europe, c. 1948–1959
Afterword | The Wireless World in the Age of Wi-Fi
Timeline of Key Dates
Further Reading
	1 | Out of the Ether
	2 | Technologies of International Radio Broadcasting
	3 | Institutions, States, and International Broadcasting
	4 | Radio Wars
	5 | Broadcasting as Internationalism
	6 | Programmes, Soft Power, and Public Diplomacy
	7 | Tuning-in to the World
	8 | The Soundscapes of the Wireless World
Index