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Polyphony : listening to the listeners of community radio

Title
Polyphony : listening to the listeners of community radio / Bridget Backhaus.
Author
Backhaus, Bridget
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

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Summary
"This book looks at the rich and complex history of broadcasting and community broadcasting in the multicultural and multilingual milieu in India. It explores the world of community radio and how community radio broadcasters hear and speak to their audiences under the overarching theme of polyphony. The book discusses the socio-historical contexts which allowed community radio to thrive in India. It highlights its potential to create alternative spaces of representation, and opportunity and its importance in preserving and disseminating local knowledge and traditions. The author weaves together ethnographic research and literature, as well as personal narratives and stories of those involved in the field. Further, the monograph critically examines the impact of development agendas on community projects and processes, discussing in detail the pervasiveness of the development discourse in every aspect of community radio and how it manifests on air. It also illustrates the limitations of community radio, within the context of its participation in the 'spectacle of development'. Accessible and deeply insightful, this book will be of interest to researchers and students of cultural studies, sociology, social anthropology, media and communication studies, and South Asian studies"--
Subject
  • Community radio > India
  • Radio audiences > India
  • Radio broadcasting > Social aspects > India
  • Radio communautaire > Inde
  • Radio > Aspect social > Inde
  • Community radio
  • Radio audiences
  • Radio broadcasting > Social aspects
  • India
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction -- "Don't touch that dial" -- Noise floor -- Tech specs -- Following the script -- Caller screening -- Feedback and distortion -- Normalize and Amplify -- Multitracking -- Pass the mic -- The mixdown.
ISBN
  • 9780367535865
  • 0367535866
  • 9781032043791
  • 1032043792
  • 9781003191285 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2021004773
OCLC
  • 1235871290
  • on1235871290
  • SCSB-14376402
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library