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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      01 February 2019
      31 January 2019
      ISBN:
      9781108556903
      9781108470643
      9781108456357
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108556903
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 242 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.36kg, 242 Pages
      • Series:
      The International African Library (59)
      Subjects:
      Area Studies, African Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, History, Anthropology: General Interest, Anthropology, African History
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    Series:
    The International African Library (59)
    Subjects:
    Area Studies, African Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, History, Anthropology: General Interest, Anthropology, African History
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    Zulu Radio in South Africa is one of the most far-reaching and influential media in the region, currently attracting around 6.67 million listeners daily. While the public and political role of radio is well-established, what is less understood is how it has shaped culture by allowing listeners to negotiate modern identities and fast-changing lifestyles. Liz Gunner explores how understandings of the self, family, and social roles were shaped through this medium of voice and mediated sound. Radio was the unseen literature of the auditory, the drama of the airwaves, and thus became a conduit for many talents squeezed aside by apartheid repression. Besides Winnie Mahlangu and K. E. Masinga, among other talents, the exiles Lewis Nkosi and Bloke Modisane made a network of identities and conversations which stretched from the heart of Harlem to the American South, drawing together the threads of activism and creativity from both Black America and the African continent at a critical moment of late empire.

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    ‘… 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 Source: Research in African Literatures

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    • 1 - K. E. Masinga, Zulu Radio, and the politics of ‘migrant’ orality
      pp 31-48
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