Sound, Space and Society: Rebel Radio

ISBN-13: 9781137576750 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 120 str.

Kimberley Peters

Opis

​'Rebel Radio is a crucial intervention in the academic study of radio. Kim Peters significantly advances our understanding of radio as a distinctly 'spatial' and spatialising medium - operating within and in relation to place and space, whilst also producing its own distinct geographies of transmission, reception and transgression. This book carefully weaves concepts, theory and primary data into a genuinely original account of radio piracy's heyday in 1960s and 1970s, while exploring the legacies of radio piracy through to the present day.'-Alasdair Pinkerton, Senior Lecturer in Geopolitics, Royal Holloway University of London, UK, author of Radio (2018).
In 1964, rebel radio stations took to the seas in converted ships to offer listening choice to a young, resistant audience, against a backdrop of restrictive broadcasting policies. This book draws on this exceptional moment in social history, and the decades that followed, teasing out the relations between sound, society and space that were central to 'pirate' broadcasting activities. With a turn towards mediated life in geography, studies of radio have been largely absent. However, radio remains the most pervasive mass communications medium. This book breaks new ground, discussing in depth the relationship between radio, space and society; considering how space matters in the production, consumption and regulation of audio transmission, through the geophysical spaces of sea, land and air. It is relevant for readers interested in geographies of media, sensory spatial experience, everyday geopolitics and the turn towards elemental and more-than-human geographies.

Spis treści

Prelude.- Chapter 1: Audible introductions: Sound, space and society.- Chapter 2: Contextualising Caroline: The offshore pirate.- Chapter 3: Offshore outlaws: Intimate geopolitics at sea.- Chapter 4: Audio atmospherics: listening from land.- Chapter 5: Broadcasting borders: Controlling the air.- Chapter 6: Sounding out conclusions.-  Encore.  

O autorze

Kimberley Peters teaches Geography at University of Liverpool, UK. She is co-editor of Water Worlds (2014); The Mobilities of Ships (2015); Carceral Mobilities (2017); and Territory beyond Terra (2018). She is the author of over 30 peer reviewed articles and book chapters and the discipline-wide textbook, Your Human Geography Dissertation (2017).  

Blurb

In 1964, rebel radio stations took to the seas in converted ships to offer listening choice to a young, resistant audience, against a backdrop of restrictive broadcasting policies. This book draws on this exceptional moment in social history, and the decades that followed, teasing out the relations between sound, society and space that were central to ‘pirate’ broadcasting activities. With a turn towards mediated life in geography, studies of radio have been largely absent. However, radio remains the most pervasive mass communications medium. This book breaks new ground, discussing in depth the relationship between radio, space and society; considering how space matters in the production, consumption and regulation of audio transmission, through the geophysical spaces of sea, land and air. It is relevant for readers interested in geographies of media, sensory spatial experience, everyday geopolitics and the turn towards elemental and more-than-human geographies.