Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, And The New Neighborhood Of The Americas (Volume 26) (Flashpoints),Used

Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, And The New Neighborhood Of The Americas (Volume 26) (Flashpoints),Used

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Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas discovers the prehistory of wireless culture. It examines both the coevolution of radio and the novel in Argentina, Cuba, and the United States from the early 1930s to the late 1960s, and the various populist political climates in which the emerging medium of radio became the chosen means to produce the voice of the people.Based on original archival research in Buenos Aires, Havana, Paris, and the United States, the book develops a literary media theory that understands sound as a transmedial phenomenon and radio as a transnational medium. Analyzing the construction of new social and political relations in the wake of the United States 1930s Good Neighbor Policy, Acoustic Properties challenges standard narratives of hemispheric influence through new readings of Richard Wrights cinematic work in Argentina, Severo Sarduys radio plays in France, and novels by John Dos Passos, Manuel Puig, Raymond Chandler, and Carson McCullers. Alongside these writers, the book also explores Che Guevara and Fidel Castros Radio Rebelde, FDRs fireside chats, Flix Caignets invention of the radionovela in Cuba, Evita Perns populist melodramas in Argentina, Orson Welless experimental New Deal radio, Cuban and U.S. radio wars, and the 1960s African American activist Robert F. Williamss protoblack power Radio Free Dixie.From the doldrums of the Great Depression to the tumult of the Cuban Revolution, Acoustic Properties illuminates how novelists in the radio age converted writing into a practice of listening, transforming realism as they struggled to channel and shape popular power.

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