Radio and the gendered soundscape : women and broadcasting in Argentina and Uruguay, 1930-1950 / Christine Ehrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ehrick, Christine, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in radio broadcasting--Argentina--Buenos Aires--History.

Women in radio broadcasting.

Women in radio broadcasting--Uruguay--Montevideo--History.

Women broadcasters--Argentina--Buenos Aires--Biography.

Women broadcasters.

Women broadcasters--Uruguay--Montevideo--Biography.

Sex role--Argentina--Buenos Aires--History.

Sex role.

Sex role--Uruguay--Montevideo--History.

Mass media--Political aspects--Argentina--Buenos Aires--History.

Mass media.

Mass media--Political aspects--Uruguay--Montevideo--History.

Political culture--Argentina--Buenos Aires--History.

Political culture.

Political culture--Uruguay--Montevideo--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 231 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Radio & the Gendered Soundscape

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a history of women, radio, and the gendered constructions of voice and sound in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Montevideo, Uruguay. Through the stories of five women and one radio station, this study makes a substantial theoretical contribution to the study of gender, mass media, and political culture and expands our knowledge of these issues beyond the US and Western Europe. Included here is a study of the first all-women's radio station in the Western Hemisphere, an Argentine comedian known as 'Chaplin in Skirts', an author of titillating dramatic serials and, of course, Argentine First Lady 'Evita' Perón. Through the concept of the gendered soundscape, this study integrates sound studies and gender history in new ways, asking readers to consider both the female voice in history and the sonic dimensions of gender.

Contents:

Introduction: Gender in and on the air

1. Radio and the modern girl : Silvia Guerrico and Buenos Aires broadcasting

2. A station for women in Montevideo : Radio Femenina

3. Feminism and populism on the airwaves : Paulina Luisi and Eva Duarte de Perón

4. Chaplin in Skirts? : Niní Marshall

5. Nené Cascallar : airing clean and dirty longing

Echoes of soundscapes past : epilogue and conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-39381-X

1-316-39705-X

1-316-39925-7

1-316-40033-6

1-316-40087-5

1-316-39979-6

1-316-39867-6

1-139-94194-1