Workshop: Radio, community, power: domination and emancipation in segregated contexts (hybrid, 15.06.2023)

Workshop
Radio, community, power: 
domination and emancipation in segregated contexts
Thursday 15th June 2023, 9 am - 18.30 pm

Place : Campus Condorcet
Bâtiment de Recherche Sud
Salle 0.015
5 cours des Humanités, Aubervilliers

Organization :
Tristan Le Bras (EHESS, Mondes Américains/CENA)
Thomas Leyris (Université de Lille/ IRHIS)

Contact : tristan.lebras[at]ehess[dot]fr

Visioconference, click here
 

Presentation in english : This workshop is an opportunity for discussion and encounters between seemingly sealed academic fields around the topic of radio during the 20th Century, in global perspective. The emphasis is placed on processes of reappropriation from publics of broadcasts that were initially created to rely on their consent. We can observe converging dynamics accross the globe in that matter. However, the outcomes differ according to local contexts.
This workshop intends to be a platform for dicussion over methodological and conceptual approaches. While the concept of race is omnipresent in the United States, it can be absent in other area studies, where concepts such as community or nation are preferred.
The discussion will take place in the form of a roundtable to suggest the main results of international research over radio, community and power.

 

PROGRAM

8h30-9h / Welcome & breakfast
9h-9h15 / Introduction
9h15-10h45 / Colonial plans, local realities
Jessica A. Schwartz
Decolonization, Democracy, Dissent: A History of the Radio in the Republic Marshall Islands [online]
Vincent Kuitenbrouwer
Radio Broadcasting and Colonial Power in the Dutch East Indies, 1930s.
Thomas Leyris
Which Radio for Africans? The conflict between the SORAFOM and Radio Dakar’s staff during the decolonization of French West Africa (1955-1958)

10h45-11h / Break

11h-12h30 / The transnational path of dissenting voices
Daniel Rojas
A Radio for the vanguard of the revolution: Radio Beijing in Latin America, 1962-1971 [online]
Angela Tate
"That's What a Song Can Do": Etta Moten Barnett's Chicago and the Broadcasting of Black Women's Internationalism (1955-1964)
Marine Beccarelli
The other 'Radio París': French radio's short-wave service to Francoist Spain (1945-mid 1970s) [online]

12h30-14h / Lunch

14h-15h30 / Whose music for which target?
Amy A. Coddington
Desegregating Commercial Radio in the United States (1980s)
Sandrine Coyez
From Black to White: Symphonic Jazz on WNYC and NBC (1925-1950)
Manuel Bocquier
Of listeners and letters: racialization and appropriation of old-time music on radio (USA, 1930-1945)

15h30-15h45 / Break

15h45-17h15 / Broadcasting to a community or communalizing the broadcast?
Arthur Asseraf
Who does Radio Gibraltar speak for? Borders, sovereignty and decolonization between Europe and Africa (1958-1982)
Diane Di Sciullo
The case of "La Voz Campesina": ethnography of an indigenous radio in a context of linguistic domination in Huayacocotla, Veracruz, Mexico
Tristan Le Bras
In the service of the community. White-owned black-oriented radio between profit and public service requirements in the United-States (1940s-1970s)

17h30-18h30 / Roundtable
The war of the waves revisited. Divergence and convergence among radio studies in global perspective.


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