scholarly journals Listening to “The human without a soul” - outline for an audience-centred history of broadcasting in communist Albania

Muzikologija ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 141-155
Author(s):  
Eckehard Pistrick
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Eastern Bloc ◽  
Institutional History ◽  
Audience Studies ◽  
Radio History ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

The paper proposes a study of broadcasting in one of the most tightly isolated regimes of the communist Eastern Bloc, beyond the paradigms of radio as a pure propaganda medium and of radio history as pure institutional history. Instead of a macro-history from above, this contribution proposes an ethnographically grounded micro-perspective alongside the lines of ?audience studies?, informed by ?oral history? methods. It proposes focusing on the social effects of radio listening and, in a broader perspective, on how radio broadcasting was embedded into larger modernization agendas of the regime of Enver Hoxha.

scholarly journals The Role of Akashvani Kozhikode in the Radio Broadcasting History of Kerala with Emphasis on the Contributions of Khan Kavil

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Fida Yasmin
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

The study examines the history of radio broadcasting in Kerala from the 1940s to the 21st century, focusing on the contributions of Akashvani Kozhikode. An attempt is made to search the social and cultural history of Akashvani Kozhikode and find out the contemporary relevance of Kozhikode station. The study's primary aim is to delve into the life history of Khan Kavil, who was an anchor, drama writer, actor, drama director, and broadcasting artist. Khan Kavil, born in a small village named Kavumthara in Kerala, was a voice artist who worked in Akashvani Kozhikode from 1978 to 1997 and carved a niche with his dynamic voice in the realm of radio broadcasting in Kerala. The study is trying to identify his contributions to the Akashvani Kozhikode and society. His life and contributions are recollected through popular memories, and an attempt is made to write a local and oral history based on this data gathered through the conversations with the eminent personalities of Khan Kavil's time who admired him and his colleagues. Further, the paper attempts to trace out why radio broadcasting still has a significant impact on ordinary people despite the advent of new forms of media. Magazines, newspapers, brochures, and interviews are used as the primary sources of this study.

scholarly journals Thirteen ways of looking at institutional history: a model for digital exhibitions from science archives

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Venkat Srinivasan ◽  
TB Dinesh ◽  
Bhanu Prakash ◽  
A Shalini
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Public History ◽  
Wallace Stevens ◽  
Institutional History ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Centre ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Official Records

Over the past decade, there have been many efforts to streamline the accessibility of archival material on the web. This includes easy display of oral history interviews and archival records, and making their content more amenable to searches. Science archives wrestle with new challenges, of not just putting out the data, but of building spaces where historians, journalists, the scientific community and the general public can see stories emerging from the linking of seemingly disparate records. We offer a design architecture for an online public history exhibit that takes material from existing archives. Such a digital exhibit allows us to explore the middle space between raw archival data and a finished piece of work (like a book or documentary). The National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) digital exhibit is built around thirteen ways to reflect upon and assemble the history of the institution, which is based in Bangalore, India. (A nod to Wallace Stevens' poem, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”). The exhibit tries to bring to light multiple interpretations of NCBS, weaved by the voices of over 70 story tellers. The material for the exhibit is curated from records collected to build the Centre's archive. The oral history excerpts, along with over 600 photographs, official records, letters, and the occasional lab note, give a glimpse into the Centre's multifaceted history and show connections with the present.

Taking to the Waves: Vietnamese society around the radio in the 1930s

2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
ERICH DeWALD
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Geography ◽  
Early History ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Relative Lack ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
Public Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Waves

AbstractCompared with other public media, the colonial state showed a relative lack of interest in radio broadcasting, which developed in Vietnam in the 1930s under the aegis of two organizations based in Hanoi and Saigon, the Radio-Club de l'Indochine du Nord and Radio Saigon. These two groups were largely responsible for the new technology's expansion and for determining the content of broadcasting. The groups actively consulted the growing radio public, and that vocal audience played a role in determining not just what was heard but also in the social life of radio in late-colonial Vietnam. The content of radio was limited to a non-political domain and this fact, along with the particular position that many radios took in the social geography of towns and cities, lent itself to the easy entry of the radio into day-to-day life. Indeed, the early history of radio in Vietnam is remarkable for how rapidly it became commonplace, even banal.

Recording the Oral History of the Bakuba—II. Results

1960 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Vansina
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
General Type ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ancestor Worship ◽  
Central Group ◽  
Decorative Art ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Village ◽  
Culture And Language

A Cluster of some eighteen small tribes, numbering in all some 70,000 people, which lives on the rolling heights between the rivers Kasai, Sankuru and Lulua in the Kasai province of the Congo, are called Kuba by their neighbours. They form a kingdom which is in fact a federation of tribes, dominated by a central group, the Bushoong, whose chief is king of the whole congeries. This federation was imposed by the Bushoong upon the other tribes by conquest or threat of arms during the course of the three last centuries. As with all conquest states of which this one, although a federation, is typical, the different tribes controlled do not all have the same culture. One group, comprising the central tribes, is similar in culture and language. It includes the Bushoong, Ngeende, Pyaang, Byeeng, and Bulaang tribes. Other tribes are culturally akin to this group. Still other tribes belong to the Lulua-Luba Kasai cluster. Among these the patrilineal Coofa and the matrilineal Kete may be mentioned. Finally, other tribes like the Ngoombe or Mbeengi participate in the general type of Mongo cultures. The social structure of all the Kuba tribes with the exception of Coofa and Mbeengi is matrilineal. They are grouped in matrilineal clans, which are divided in small autonomous residential lineages, which can be called clan-sections. Clan-sections of different clans make up a village. The village is ruled by a set of dignitaries and a general council composed of the clan-section heads. The tribes of the central group and the ones who are culturally akin to it group several villages in chiefdoms which are ruled by chiefs assisted by councils. In these tribes, with the exception of the Bushoong, different chiefdoms are united loosely on a tribal scale. The Bushoong, who are the most numerous, are constituted in one chiefdom only. The religion of all the tribes of this cluster is very similar. Ancestor worship is practically absent. There are beliefs in a Supreme Being, in nature spirits, and in spirits or forces which control charms. Furthermore, mention must be made for the whole congeries of tribes of a flourishing art, especially decorative art, which is expressed in weaving, matting, woodcarving, ironworking and even architecture.

scholarly journals Structuration Analysis of the Transition of St. Paul University Tuguegarao, Philippines from College to University

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvador Masilungan Evardone
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Education ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Structuration Theory ◽  
Institutional History ◽  
Quezon City ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Anthony Giddens ◽  
History Of ◽  
Keywords Education ◽  
The Town

The school established by the Congregation of the Sisters St. Paul of Chartres (SPC) in Tuguegarao had grown from its school opening in 1907 up to its expansion to college in 1949. It gave the town a Catholic education imbued with Paulinian charism. Their missions and objectives responded effectively to the needs of the time. The purpose of this study is to write the history of the transition of St. Paul school in Tuguegarao from college to university. It will attempt to recount the significant transformation of this academic institution by utilizing the Structuration Theory of Anthony Giddens as its theoretical framework. It also employed the method of oral history through interviews supplemented and corroborated by the data retrieved in the archives. The time-space element in this study is the transition of St. Paul University Tuguegarao from 1949 to 1982. From the onset, St. Paul College Tuguegarao (SPCT) had established constant communication among the administrators, faculty, staff, and students for stability, alignment to vision-mission and relevance to society. Since its attainment of college status in 1949, more courses were offered, and facilities were added. Such endeavors necessitated numerous meetings, deliberations, and assessments that led the school to a transition from college to university in 1982. Keywords—Education, Congregation of St. Paul University Quezon City (SPC), structuration theory, institutional history, St. Paul University Tuguegarao, Philippines

scholarly journals The Primacy of Practice?

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desmond Bell
Keyword(s):  
Film Theory ◽  
Visual Studies ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Institutional History ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Massive Growth ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
The Relationship

CRITICAL SOURCES FOR MAKING SENSE OF THE THEORY-PRACTICE DIVIDE IN FILM AND VISUAL STUDIES SynopsisIn this paper I explore the theory-practice nexus as it manifests itself within film and visual studies. Starting from an institutional history of the troubled relation between film theory and the teaching and conduct of imaging practice, I locate this disjuncture in a broader analysis of the social division between intellectual and manual labour within capitalist society. I discuss Aristotle's distinctions between theoria, praxis and techne and relate this to the contemporary divisions between the theoretical, critical and technical elements of teaching film. I argue that a discussion of the relationship between theory and practice within film and the visual arts is best approached by a serious consideration of the 'politics of theory'. The ProblemThe last twenty years has seen a massive growth in film, media and communication studies within further and higher...

Radio Broadcasting, Disability Activism, and the Remaking of the Postwar Welfare State

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-78
Author(s):  
Rebecca Scales
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

Through the history of the short-lived 1947 radio show La Tribune de l’Invalide, this article examines how the social and political context of the Liberation offered disability activists a unique opportunity to demand pensions, medical care, and social services hitherto denied to them by the French state. Drawing on transcripts of the broadcasts and correspondence between listeners and the show’s host Maurice Didier, the article demonstrates how disability activists played a pivotal, if little acknowledged, role in the construction of the postwar welfare state by highlighting French society’s historic neglect of disabled civilians.

Tidlig neoliberalisme

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hagen Schulz-forberg
Keyword(s):  
State Intervention ◽  
Institutional History ◽  
Social Question ◽  
Vital Importance ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War

This article maps the early conceptual and institutional history of neoliberalism, arguing that the social question was of vital importance to the ideology’s early de-velopment in the 1930s. This has been overlooked in recent intellectual histories of neoliberalism, which focus primarily on the post-war period. Those who have ventured into the prehistory of neoliberalism have primarily focused on the neoliberal acceptance of stronger state intervention in the economy, but without contextualizing this shift against the background of the social question. In addition, the article explores another overlooked dimension of early neoliberalism, namely the transnational institutional efforts that were indispensable to the foundation of the neoliberal network.

Thirty Years of Reform

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lily Chumley
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Institutional History ◽  
Art Exhibitions ◽  
Thirtieth Anniversary ◽  
History Of ◽  
Reform And Opening Up ◽  
Contemporary Chinese ◽  
Opening Up

This chapter begins with an oral history of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, describing how the school changed over the course of gaigekaifang. Gaigekaifang is often referred to in English as “reform” (gaige), putting the stress on the structural adjustments that fomented change, while kaifang roughly means “opening up.” This institutional history is given a broader social context through interpretations of three art exhibitions commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of reform and opening up in 2008. These exhibitions offer perspectives on the legacies of socialism and the novelties of reform that are variously aligned with or critical of official state narratives, showing how contemporary Chinese dreamworlds contest with one another.

“People Power”: Social Planners and Conflicting Memories of the Australian Assistance Plan

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-213
Author(s):  
Carolyn Collins ◽  
Melanie Oppenheimer
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Oral History ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

The Australian Assistance Plan (AAP), Gough Whitlam’s controversial programme of social welfare reform in the 1970s, was promoted as a national experiment in “people power.” But the outpouring of often highly critical evaluations during and immediately after its brief existence failed to take into account the experiences of the programme’s grassroots workers. This article focuses on the oral history component of a wider history of the AAP, and on those employed to realise Whitlam’s vision – the social planners – comparing their backgrounds, roles, expectations, and frequently conflicting experiences as they shaped, and were shaped by, this “bold but crazy” experiment.

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