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Radio in Africa : publics, cultures, communities
- Title
- Radio in Africa : publics, cultures, communities / edited by Liz Gunner, Dina Ligaga and Dumisani Moyo.
- Publication
- Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2011.
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- Description
- xv, 320 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Contributors to this volume investigate the multiple roles of radio in the lives of African listeners across the continent.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-305) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The Soundscapes of Radio in Africa / Liz Gunner, Dina Ligaga and Dumisani Moyo Part I. RADIO, POPULAR DEMOCRACY AND NEW PUBLICS. Talk Radio and Politics in Ghana : Exploring Civic and (Un)Civil Discourse in the Public Sphere / Wisdom J. Tettey -- From Diffusion to Dialogic Space: FM Radio Stations in Kenya / Christopher Joseph Odhiambo -- Contesting Mainstream Media Power: Mediating the Zimbabwe Crisis through Clandestine Radio / Dumisani Moyo -- Equivocal Resonances: Islamic Revival and Female Radio Preachers in Urban Mal / Dorothea E. Schulz -- Part II. THE CULTURES OF RADIO: LANGUAGES OF THE EVERYDAY. What Is the Relationship between Hate Radio and Violence? Rethinking Rwandas Radio Machete / Scott Straus -- Why Radio is Africas Medium of Choice in the Global Age / Winston Mano -- Bantustan Identity, Censorship and Subversion on Northern Sotho Radio under Apartheid, 1960s1980s / Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi -- South African Radio in a Saucepan / David B. Coplan -- Radio Theatre: The Moral Play in the Historical Context of State Control and Censorship in Kenya / Dina Ligaga -- Zulu Radio Drama and the Modern Subject Restless Identities in South Africa in the 1970s / Liz Gunner Part III. RADIO AND COMMUNITY: VOICES OF CHANGE. Radio Okapi: 100% Congolese / Stephanie Wolters -- Talk Radio, Democracy and the Public Sphere: 567MW in Cape Town / Tanja Bosch -- Radio and Religion: The Shaping of Religious Discourse / Maria Frahm-Arp -- Voices from Without : The African National Congress, its Radio, its Allies and Exile, 19601984 / Stephen R. Davis -- Airing the Politics of Nation: Radio in Angola, Past and Present / Marissa J. Moorman -- Radio in Zones of Conflict Abnormal Measures for Abnormal Circumstances / David Smith -- Multiple Publics, Multiple Languages: Radio and the Contestations of Broadcasting Language Policy in Uganda / Monica B. Chibita
- ISBN
- 9781868145508
- 1868145506
- LCCN
- 2012463928
- OCLC
- ocn778852742
- 778852742
- SCSB-1654815
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library