[FoME] WG: [IAMCR] NEW BOOK: Radio in Africa: Publics, Cultures, Communities

[Wolf Ludwig]

Just FYI - with regards,
Wolf

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Wendy Willems sent Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:10
>Radio in Africa: Publics, Cultures, Communities edited by Liz Gunner,
>Dina Ligaga and Dumisani Moyo
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>ORDERING INFORMATION: AFRICA: Blue Weaver, Tel: +27 21 701 4477, Email:
>marketing at blueweaver.co.za 
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>FOR MORE INFORMATION: Tshepo Neito, Wits University Press, Tel: +27 11
>717 8700, Email: tshepo.neito at wits.ac.za, Website: www.witspress.co.za 
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>Radio has been called 'Africa's medium'. Its wide accessibility is a
>result of a number of factors, including the liberalisation policies of
>the 'third wave' of democracy and its ability to transcend the barriers
>of cost, geographical boundaries, the colonial linguistic heritage and
>low literacy levels. This sets it apart from other media platforms in
>facilitating political debate, shaping identities and assisting
>listeners as they negotiate the challenges of everyday life on the
>continent.
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>Radio in Africa breaks new ground by bringing together essays on the
>multiple roles of radio in the lives of listeners in Anglophone,
>Lusophone and Francophone Africa. Some essays turn to the history of
>radio and its part in the culture and politics of countries such as
>Angola and South Africa. Others - such as the essay on Mali, gender and
>religion - show how radio throws up new tensions yet endorses social
>innovation and the making of new publics.
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>A number of essays look to radio's current role in creating listening
>communities that radically shift the nature of the public sphere. Essays
>on the genre of the talk show in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa point to
>radio's role in creating a robust public sphere. Radio's central role in
>the emergence of informed publics in fragile national spaces is covered
>in essays on the Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia. The book also
>highlights radio's links to the new media, its role in resistance to
>oppressive regimes such as Zimbabwe, and points in several cases - for
>example in the essay on Uganda - to the importance of African languages
>in building modern communities that embrace both local and global
>knowledge.
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>Table of Contents
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>Introduction: The Soundscapes of Radio in Africa
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>I. RADIO, POPULAR DEMOCRACY AND NEW PUBLICS
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>Wisdom J. Tettey: Talk Radio and Politics in Ghana: Exploring Civic and
>(Un)Civil Discourse in the Public Sphere
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>Christopher Joseph Odhiambo: From Diffusion to Dialogic Space: FM Radio
>Stations in Kenya
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>Dumisani Moyo: Contesting Mainstream Media Power: Mediating the Zimbabwe
>Crisis through Clandestine Radio
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>Dorothea E. Schulz: Equivocal Resonances: Islamic Revival and Female
>Radio 'Preachers' in Urban Mali
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>II. THE CULTURES OF RADIO: LANGUAGES OF THE EVERYDAY
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>Scott Straus: What Is the Relationship between Hate Radio and Violence?
>Rethinking Rwanda's 'Radio Machete'
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>Winston Mano: Why Radio is Africa's Medium of Choice in the Global Age 
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>Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi: Bantustan Identity, Censorship and
>Subversion on Northern Sotho Radio under Apartheid, 1960s-1980s
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>David B. Coplan: South African Radio in a Saucepan
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>Dina Ligaga: Radio Theatre: The Moral Play in the Historical Context of
>State Control and Censorship in Kenya
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>Liz Gunner: Zulu Radio Drama and the Modern Subject - Restless
>Identities in South Africa in the 1970s
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>III. RADIO AND COMMUNITY: VOICES OF CHANGE
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>Stephanie Wolters: Radio Okapi - 100% Congolese
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>Tanja Bosch: Talk Radio, Democracy and the Public Sphere: 567MW in Cape
>Town
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>Maria Frahm-Arp: Radio and Religion: The Shaping of Religious Discourse
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>Stephen R. Davis: Voices from Without: The African National Congress,
>its Radio, its Allies and Exile, 1960-1984
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>Marissa J. Moorman: Airing the Politics of Nation: Radio in Angola, Past
>and Present
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>David Smith: Radio in Zones of Conflict - Abnormal Measures for Abnormal
>Circumstances
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>Monica B. Chibita: Multiple Publics, Multiple Languages: Radio and the
>Contestations of Broadcasting Language Policy in Uganda
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