{"product_id":"radio-soundings-9781108470643","title":"Radio Soundings","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow did Zulu Radio in apartheid South Africa, intended to stifle debate, become one of the largest stations in Africa? Gunner maps the fashioning of a modernising Black culture through radio and highlights links between these media figures with writers and political leaders from Harlem to the American South.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'… Gunner's investigation of the BBC archives as well as deep knowledge of Zulu sources living and passed away is second to none and gives her account of radio and the black modern a personal voice as well as the gravity of history.' Loren Kruger, Research in African Literatures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: radio, the SABC and the politics of culture; Part I. Sound and 'Migration': 1. K. E. Masinga, Zulu Radio and the politics of 'migrant' aurality; 2. Remembering the past, making the present: the radio worlds of Alexius Buthelezi 1961–1978; Part II. Distance and Intimacy: 3. Exile: Bloke Modisane and the BBC 1959–1987; 4. 'Africa on the rise': the early 1960s, and the radio Voice of Lewis Nkosi; Part III. Drama, Language, and Daily Life: 5. Untidy boundaries, restless identities: Zulu serial drama in the 1970s; 6. Radio drama in the time of violence: Yiz' Uvalo (In Spite of Fear) December 1986–May 1987; 7. 'Ikusasa Lethu' (Our Tomorrow): the 'glorious decade'? Radio drama of the 1990s; 8. Finding a centre; Conclusion: dances of power; References; Index.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53186765226327,"sku":"9781108470643","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/radio-soundings-9781108470643","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}