Radio soundings : South Africa and the black modern / Liz Gunner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gunner, Elizabeth, author.

Series:

Iinternational African library.

The international African library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnic broadcasting--South Africa.

Ethnic broadcasting.

Radio broadcasting, Zulu--South Africa.

Radio broadcasting, Zulu.

Radio broadcasting--Political aspects--South Africa.

Radio broadcasting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Zulu Radio in South Africa is one of the most far-reaching and influential media in the region, currently attracting around 6.67 million listeners daily. While the public and political role of radio is well-established, what is less understood is how it has shaped culture by allowing listeners to negotiate modern identities and fast-changing lifestyles. Liz Gunner explores how understandings of the self, family, and social roles were shaped through this medium of voice and mediated sound. Radio was the unseen literature of the auditory, the drama of the airwaves, and thus became a conduit for many talents squeezed aside by apartheid repression. Besides Winnie Mahlangu and K. E. Masinga, among other talents, the exiles Lewis Nkosi and Bloke Modisane made a network of identities and conversations which stretched from the heart of Harlem to the American South, drawing together the threads of activism and creativity from both Black America and the African continent at a critical moment of late empire.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Feb 2019).

ISBN:

1-108-57831-4

1-108-55690-6

1-108-66225-0