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Author:   Michael A. Krysko
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
Imprint:   University of Illinois Press
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780252046391

ISBN 10:   0252046390
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   25 February 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: “The Microphone Is Mightier than the Machine Gun”—Visions of Cooperation and Realities of Conflict in Early American Radio Part I. Imagining the Foreign Menace Chapter 1. “Broadcasting in the Language of the Enemies of Civilization”—Foreign Language Broadcasting and American Radio, 1920–1940 Chapter 2. “An Invasion by Radio Is Crossing the Mexican Border”—John Brinkley, Border Blasters, and the Geography of American National Identity in the 1930s Part II. Language Education and Identity on the Radio Chapter 3. “To Help the French Speaking People of Louisiana”—Language, Education, and Identity in the French Radio Project at Louisiana State University, 1938–1940 Chapter 4. “An Efficient Way to Spread Shakespeare’s Beautiful Language”—“Basic English,” Language Education, and American International Radio, 1935–1941 Part III. Colonized Airwaves Chapter 5. “A Workable Scheme to Quiet the Panaman Clamor”—US Radio Policy in Panama in the Shadow of the World Wars Chapter 6. “An Almost Unbelievable Disregard of the Interests of the United States Listeners and Broadcasters”—US-Cuban Relations, American Identities, and the 1946 North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement Conclusion: From “Whistling and Singing ‘La Paloma’” to “No Way, José”—A Century of Continuity and Change in Communications, Identity, and Borders   Notes Bibliography Index

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Michael A. Krysko is an associate professor of history at Kansas State University. He is the author of American Radio in China: International Encounters with Technology and Communications, 1919-41.

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