Tag: Airwaves

Hitler’s Airwaves The Inside Story of Nazi Radio Broadcasting and Propaganda Swing


Free Download Mr. Horst J. P. Bergmeier, "Hitler’s Airwaves: The Inside Story of Nazi Radio Broadcasting and Propaganda Swing"
English | ISBN: 0300067097 | | 384 pages | PDF | 39 MB
This book tells the remarkable story of Germany`s World War II English language propaganda broadcasting operation and the swing band it used to send subversive American jazz and swing music over the airwaves to Allied listeners around the world. Bergmeier and Lotz provide the definitive account of the range and ingenuity of Nazi radio public relations, along with a full-length CD featuring rare tracks of the jazz propaganda classics.

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Domesticating the Airwaves Broadcasting, Domesticity and Femininity


Free Download Maggie Andrews, "Domesticating the Airwaves: Broadcasting, Domesticity and Femininity"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1441105719, 1441172726 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 2.0 mb
Using case studies and analytical overviews this book explores the relationship between broadcasting and the intimate domestic sphere into which it is broadcast. It focuses on the period from the 1920s, when broadcasting was established in the UK, to the present day when both domesticity and broadcasting have become areas of anxiety and contestation. The entry of the ‘wireless’, and later television, into the home changed men and women’s experience of domesticity, offering education and reducing isolation. But broadcasting did not merely change domestic leisure patterns, it actively intervened in constructing domesticity. The supposedly natural relationship between femininity and domesticity has structured the nature of broadcasting, and also the discourses which have emerged concerning the consumption of broadcast media. Contemporary broadcasting continues to be obsessed by domesticity, both in an idealised sense as well as portraying the domestic world as one of turmoil and crisis. This volume demonstrates that the relationship between broadcasting and domesticity is a key, and often neglected, feature of the cultural history of Britain in the last 100 years.

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