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Sound, Space and Society: Rebel Radio 1st ed. 2018


Sound, Space and Society: Rebel Radio 1st ed. 2018

Hardback by Peters, Kimberley

Sound, Space and Society: Rebel Radio

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ISBN:
9781137576750
Publication Date:
15 Dec 2017
Edition/language:
1st ed. 2018 / English
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:
Palgrave Pivot
Pages:
120 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 27 May - 1 Jun 2024
Sound, Space and Society: Rebel Radio

Description

In 1964, rebel radio stations took to the seas in converted ships to offer listening choice to a young, resistant audience, against a backdrop of restrictive broadcasting policies. This book draws on this exceptional moment in social history, and the decades that followed, teasing out the relations between sound, society and space that were central to 'pirate' broadcasting activities. With a turn towards mediated life in geography, studies of radio have been largely absent. However, radio remains the most pervasive mass communications medium. This book breaks new ground, discussing in depth the relationship between radio, space and society; considering how space matters in the production, consumption and regulation of audio transmission, through the geophysical spaces of sea, land and air. It is relevant for readers interested in geographies of media, sensory spatial experience, everyday geopolitics and the turn towards elemental and more-than-human geographies.

Contents

Prelude.- Chapter 1: Audible introductions: Sound, space and society.- Chapter 2: Contextualising Caroline: The offshore pirate.- Chapter 3: Offshore outlaws: Intimate geopolitics at sea.- Chapter 4: Audio atmospherics: listening from land.- Chapter 5: Broadcasting borders: Controlling the air.- Chapter 6: Sounding out conclusions.- Encore.

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