
Sound, Space and Society
Rebel Radio
Kimberley Peters(Author)
Palgrave Pivot (Publisher)
Published on 25. December 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVII, 120 pages
978-1-349-95858-0 (ISBN)
Description
In 1964, rebel radio stations took to the seas in converted ships to offer listening choice to a young, resistant audience, against a backdrop of restrictive broadcasting policies. This book draws on this exceptional moment in social history, and the decades that followed, teasing out the relations between sound, society and space that were central to 'pirate' broadcasting activities. With a turn towards mediated life in geography, studies of radio have been largely absent. However, radio remains the most pervasive mass communications medium.
This book breaks new ground, discussing in depth the relationship between radio, space and society; considering how space matters in the production, consumption and regulation of audio transmission, through the geophysical spaces of sea, land and air. It is relevant for readers interested in geographies of media, sensory spatial experience, everyday geopolitics and the turn towards elemental and more-than-human geographies.
This book breaks new ground, discussing in depth the relationship between radio, space and society; considering how space matters in the production, consumption and regulation of audio transmission, through the geophysical spaces of sea, land and air. It is relevant for readers interested in geographies of media, sensory spatial experience, everyday geopolitics and the turn towards elemental and more-than-human geographies.
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Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XVII, 120 p.
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Weight
192 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-95858-0 (9781349958580)
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-57676-7
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Book
12/2017
Palgrave Macmillan
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Person
Kimberley Peters teaches Geography at University of Liverpool, UK. She is co-editor of Water Worlds (2014); The Mobilities of Ships (2015); Carceral Mobilities (2017); and Territory beyond Terra (2018). She is the author of over 30 peer reviewed articles and book chapters and the discipline-wide textbook, Your Human Geography Dissertation (2017).
Content
Prelude.- Chapter 1: Audible introductions: Sound, space and society.- Chapter 2: Contextualising Caroline: The offshore pirate.- Chapter 3: Offshore outlaws: Intimate geopolitics at sea.- Chapter 4: Audio atmospherics: listening from land.- Chapter 5: Broadcasting borders: Controlling the air.- Chapter 6: Sounding out conclusions.- Encore.