Book
Radio nation: communication, popular culture, and nationalism in Mexico, 1920-1950
University of Arizona Press
2000
Abstract
"This book investigates the intersection of radio broadcasting and nation building. Hayes tells how both government-controlled and private radio stations produced programs of distinctly Mexican folk and popular music as a means of drawing the country's regions together and countering the influence of U.S. broadcasts." "Hayes describes how, both during and after the period of cultural revolution, Mexico radio broadcasting was shaped by the clash and collaboration of different social forces - including U.S. interests, Mexican media entrepreneurs, state institutions, and radio audiences. She traces the evolution of Mexican radio in case studies that focus on such subjects as early government broadcasting activities, the role of Mexico City media elites, the "paternal voice" of presidential addresses, and U.S. propaganda during World War II." "More than narrative history, Hayes's study provides an analytical framework for understanding the role of radio in building Mexican nationalism at a critical time in that nation's history. Radio Nation expands our appreciation of an overlooked medium that changed the course of an entire country."--BOOK JACKET.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Radio nation: communication, popular culture, and nationalism in Mexico, 1920-1950
- Creators
- Joy Elizabeth Hayes - University of Iowa, Communication Studies
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0816518521; 9780816518524
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press; Tucson
- Number of pages
- xx, 154 pages
- Alternative title
- Communication, popular culture, and nationalism in Mexico, 1920-1950
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2000
- Academic Unit
- Communication Studies; Interdisciplinary Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9983995696902771
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