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Author(s): Stephen Lovell
ISBN(s): 9780198725268, 0198725264
Edition: 1
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Year: 2015
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0198725264 
ISBN 13: 9780198725268
Author: Stephen Lovell

The story of radio begins alongside that of the Soviet state: Russia’s first long-range transmission of the human voice occurred in 1919, during the civil war. Sound broadcasting was a medium of exceptional promise for this revolutionary regime. It could bring the Bolsheviks’ message to the furthest corners of their enormous country. It had unprecedented impact: the voice of Moscow could now be wired into the very workplaces and living spaces of a population that was still only weakly literate. The liveness and immediacy of broadcasting also created vivid new ways of communicating ‘Sovietness’ – whether through May Day parades and elections, the exploits of aviators and explorers, or show trials and public criticism. Yet, in the USSR as elsewhere, broadcasting was a medium in flux: technology, the broadcasting profession, and the listening audience were never static. Soviet radio was quickly earmarked as the mouthpiece of Soviet power, yet its history is also full of unintended consequences. The supreme irony of Soviet ‘radiofication’ was that its greatest triumph – the expansion of the wireless-listening public in the Cold War era – made possible its greatest failure, by turning a part of the Soviet audience into devotees of Western broadcasting. Based on substantial original research in Moscow, St Petersburg, and Nizhnii Novgorod, Russia in the Microphone Age is the first full history of Soviet radio in English. In addition to the institutional and technological dimensions of the subject, it explores the development of programme content and broadcasting genres. It also goes in search of the mysterious figure of the Soviet listener. The result is a pioneering treatment of broadcasting as an integral part of Soviet culture from its early days in the 1920s until the dawn of the television age.

Russia in the Microphone Age A History of Soviet Radio 1919 1970 1st Table of contents:

1: Institutionalizing Soviet Radio
A Genealogy of Soviet Broadcasting
Building a Network
Administering Radio
Stalinism on the Radio

2: Radio and the Making of Soviet Society
Soviet Radio in the Ham Phase
Reaching the Mass Listener
Listener Response
Conclusion

3: How Russia Learned to Broadcast
The Early Days: Radio Establishes Its Independence as a Medium
Broadcasting Practice and the Debate on ‘Radio Art’
Radio and Literature
Broadcasting and Soviet Speech Norms
Soviet Radio in the 1930s: Voicing the Soviet Experience
Towards War

4: Mobilizing Radio: The War
Radio and War: The First Phase of Mobilization
Broadcasting in Wartime Conditions
Wartime Radio and the Popular Voice
Soviet Broadcasters Look to the Future: 1944–1945
Conclusion: Radio and the Legacy of the War

5: From Wire to Efir: Radiofication and Beyond
The Broadcasting Milieu in the Late Stalin Period
From Radiofication to Radiokhuliganstvo
Programming
Broadcasting to and from the West
Conclusion

6: The Magnitofon and the Art of Soviet Broadcasting
Adopting the Magnitofon
Broadcasting Practice in the Post-Stalin Era: How Soviet Radio Thawed
Conclusion

7: Radio Genres and Their Audiences in the Post-War Era
Playing with the Medium: Children’s Broadcasting in the Late Stalin Era and Beyond
Radio as Art Form: The Rehabilitation of Radio Theatre
Soviet Radio News in the Mass Media Age
Spontaneity Soviet-Style: Sport, Humour, and Youth
Music

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