Radio Modernisms: Features, Cultures and the BBC

Author:   Aasiya Lodhi (University of Westminster, UK) ,  Amanda Wrigley (University of Reading, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367367657


Pages:   134
Publication Date:   04 February 2020
Format:   Hardback
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This collection interrogates and stimulates deep, cross-disciplinary engagement with the various understandings and interplays of ‘radio modernisms’ from the early decades of the twentieth century through to the 1950s. Academics from a range of different disciplines explore their common interests in the richness and heterogeneity of BBC Radio’s imaginative programming – in terms of sound; as cultural events from specific moments in time; as team creations; as something experienced live in the domestic context; and as cultural works that, in many cases, attracted a certain canonical pedigree. Radio modernisms are, as these chapters demonstrate, a combination of the particular, the contingent, and the contextual. More than a decade after the publication of the first scholarly works to yoke together ‘modernism’ and ‘radio’, this collection emphasises the plurality of ‘modernisms’ as a defining aspect of contemporary BBC historiography. The authors bring multiple lenses to bear – including race, gender, and transnationalism – in order to (re)locate twentieth-century radio programming in broad, expansive contexts. They also underline the dynamic entanglements of radio – and radiogenic feature programmes, in particular – with other kinds of media and cultural forms and formats, reframing radio as a site of and vehicle for remediation and intermediality. In examining the myriad ways in which radio gave shape to new modernities, and both evolved and constituted new forms of modernism, this collection offers fresh perspectives on the interconnected significance of ‘radio modernisms’ within the socio-cultural, literary, and political landscapes of twentieth-century Britain. This book was originally published as a special issue of Media History.

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Author:   Aasiya Lodhi (University of Westminster, UK) ,  Amanda Wrigley (University of Reading, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9780367367657


ISBN 10:   0367367653
Pages:   134
Publication Date:   04 February 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Radio Modernisms: Features, Cultures and the BBC 2. Radio’s Vernacular Modernism: The Schedule as Modernist Text 3. Waves: Aestheticism, Radio Drama and Virginia Woolf 4. BBC Features, Radio Voices and the Propaganda of War 1939–1941 5. Making Waves: Una Marson’s Poetic Voice at the BBC 6. ‘Countries in the Air’: Travel and Geomodernism in Louis MacNeice’s BBC Features 7. Who’s Listening to Modernism? BBC Features and Audience Response 8. Intermedial Relationships of Radio Features with Denis Mitchell’s and Philip Donnellan’s Early Television Documentaries 9. Afterlives of BBC Radio Features 10. Afterword: Radio Modernisms: Features, Cultures and the BBC

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Aasiya Lodhi is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster, UK. She was previously an arts and current affairs producer at BBC Radio 3, Radio 4, and BBC World Service. Amanda Wrigley is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Film, Theatre and Television at the University of Reading, UK. She is also a Visiting Fellow in the School of Arts and Cultures at the Open University, UK, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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