Results by title

91 books match the query 'Radio' and 6 start with c

cover of Channels, Propagation and Antennas for Mobile Communications

Channels, Propagation and Antennas for Mobile Communications

Rodney Vaughan

The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2003

Written by two leading experts in the field, this exceptional book introduces the reader to the principles, theory and applications of physical layer wireless/mobile communications. In the area of wireless, the antennas, propagation and the radio channel used are inter-related; this book offers an explanation of that relationship, which is fundamental to the development of systems with high spectral efficiency.
[more]
cover of Cold War Broadcasting: Impact on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

Cold War Broadcasting

Impact on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

R. Eugene Parta

Central European University Press, 2010

The book examines the role of Western broadcasting to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War, with a focus on Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. It includes chapters by radio veterans and by scholars who have conducted research on the subject in once-secret Soviet bloc archives and in Western records. It also contains a selection of translated documents from formerly secret Soviet and East European archives, most of them published here for the first time.
[more]
cover of Colonialism and Christianity in Mandate Palestine

Colonialism and Christianity in Mandate Palestine

By Laura Robson

University of Texas Press, 2011

Drawing on a rich base of British archival materials, Arabic periodicals, and secondary sources, Colonialism and Christianity in Mandate Palestine brings to light the ways in which the British colonial state in Palestine exacerbated sectarianism. By transforming Muslim, Christian, and Jewish religious identities into legal categories, Laura Robson argues, the British ultimately marginalized Christian communities in Palestine. Robson explores the turning points that developed as a result of such policies, many of which led to permanent changes in the region's political landscapes. Cases include the British refusal to support Arab Christian leadership within Greek-controlled Orthodox churches, attempts to avert involvement from French or Vatican-related groups by sidelining Latin and Eastern Rite Catholics, and interfering with Arab Christians' efforts to cooperate with Muslims in objecting to Zionist expansion. Challenging the widespread but mistaken notion that violent sectarianism was endemic to Palestine, Colonialism and Christianity in Mandate Palestine shows that it was intentionally stoked in the wake of British rule beginning in 1917, with catastrophic effects well into the twenty-first century.

[more]
cover of Contemporary British and Italian Sound Docudrama: Traditions and Innovations

Contemporary British and Italian Sound Docudrama

Traditions and Innovations

Sabina Macchiavelli

Intellect Books, 2023

Explores the last thirty years of radio docufiction in Italy and the United Kingdom.
 
Located at the crossroads of fact and invention, docudrama constitutes a rich field of investigation for media studies. Despite the hybrid nature of this subject and a recent boom in podcasting, scholars have mainly concentrated on film rather than audio docufiction. Sabina Macchiavelli remedies this with an analysis of Italian and British docudramas that explores the ambiguities of this form, looking at their structure and form, as well as the type of understanding they convey. She investigates the ways that sound effects, music, recorded events, voices, and silence can work to fictionalize audio productions that sit somewhere between journalism and fully dramatized readings or plays. This interplay between fact, fiction, and sound subverts accepted knowledge and produces an alternative view of personal and historical matters, one that may complement or complicate the accepted version of the truth. Macchiavelli builds her case with studies from the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Radio Audizioni Italiane, tracing parallels and divergences within their programming to dig into the docudrama’s paradoxical nature and the ambiguities it yields.
[more]
cover of Contested Airwaves: American Radio at Home and Abroad, 1914-1946

Contested Airwaves

American Radio at Home and Abroad, 1914-1946

Michael A. Krysko

University of Illinois Press, 2025

Controversial American-led radio initiatives sparked a kaleidoscope of conflicts and rivalries from the medium’s earliest days through the end of World War II. Michael A. Krysko explores how the medium engaged the knowledge, assumptions, and prejudices that fueled listeners’ and policymakers’ objections to foreign and unwelcome radio content.

Krysko considers Americans’ antagonism toward non-English language broadcasting; issues of identity, geography, and sovereignty that propelled opposition to Mexico’s “border blaster” stations; how a project aimed at helping Cajun-speaking listeners became a French-only celebration of Acadian culture; a failed initiative to teach English to Latin Americans via shortwave broadcasting; enduring US-Panamanian conflicts over the control of radio in and around the Panama Canal; and how farmers from across the Southwest protested a radio treaty’s perceived preferential treatment of Cuba. Paying particular attention to the act of listening, Krysko shows how these initiatives illuminated and solidified divisions rooted in identity, nationalism, and prejudice.

Clear and wide-ranging, Contested Airwaves reveals early radio’s place at the nexus of public programming, transnational relations, and its own evolution as a communication medium.

[more]
cover of Culture of Class: Radio and Cinema in the Making of a Divided Argentina, 1920-1946

Culture of Class

Radio and Cinema in the Making of a Divided Argentina, 1920-1946

Matthew B. Karush

Duke University Press, 2012

In an innovative cultural history of Argentine movies and radio in the decades before Peronism, Matthew B. Karush demonstrates that competition with jazz and Hollywood cinema shaped Argentina's domestic cultural production in crucial ways, as Argentine producers tried to elevate their offerings to appeal to consumers seduced by North American modernity. At the same time, the transnational marketplace encouraged these producers to compete by marketing "authentic" Argentine culture. Domestic filmmakers, radio and recording entrepreneurs, lyricists, musicians, actors, and screenwriters borrowed heavily from a rich tradition of popular melodrama. Although the resulting mass culture trafficked in conformism and consumerist titillation, it also disseminated versions of national identity that celebrated the virtue and dignity of the poor, while denigrating the wealthy as greedy and mean-spirited. This anti-elitism has been overlooked by historians, who have depicted radio and cinema as instruments of social cohesion and middle-class formation. Analyzing tango and folk songs, film comedies and dramas, radio soap operas, and other genres, Karush argues that the Argentine culture industries generated polarizing images and narratives that provided much of the discursive raw material from which Juan and Eva Perón built their mass movement.
[more]