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Book SynopsisThis collection interrogates and stimulates deep, cross-disciplinary engagement with the various understandings and interplays of âradio modernismsâ from the early decades of the twentieth century through to the 1950s.
Academics from a range of different disciplines explore their common interests in the richness and heterogeneity of BBC Radioâs imaginative programming â in terms of sound; as cultural events from specific moments in time; as team creations; as something experienced live in the domestic context; and as cultural works that, in many cases, attracted a certain canonical pedigree. Radio modernisms are, as these chapters demonstrate, a combination of the particular, the contingent, and the contextual. More than a decade after the publication of the first scholarly works to yoke together âmodernismâ and âradioâ, this collection emphasises the plurality of âmodernismsâ as a defining aspect of contemporary BBC historiography. The authors bring multiple lenses to
