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Canada before Television - Radio, Taste, and the Struggle for Cultural Democracy (Hardcover)
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Canada before Television - Radio, Taste, and the Struggle for Cultural Democracy (Hardcover)
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Before screens could be stared at, listeners lent their ears to
radio, and Canadian listeners were as avid as any. In Canada before
Television, Len Kuffert takes us back to the earliest days of
broadcasting, paying particular attention to how programs were
imagined and made, loved and hated, regulated and tolerated. At a
time when democracy stood out as a foundational value in the West,
Canada's private stations and the CBC often had conflicting ideas
about what should or could be broadcast. While historians have
documented the nationalist and culturally aspirational motives of
some broadcasters, the story behind the production of programs for
both broad and specialized audiences has not been as effectively
told. By interweaving archival evidence with insights drawn from
secondary literature, Canada before Television offers perspectives
on radio's intimate power, the promise and challenge of US
programming and British influences, the regulation of taste on the
air, shifting and varied musical appetites, and the difficulties of
knowing what listeners wanted. While this mixed system divided
Canadians then and now, the presence of more than one vision for
the emerging medium made the early years of broadcasting in Canada
more culturally democratic for listeners who stood a better chance
of getting both what they already liked and what they might come to
like. Canada before Television offers an insightful look at the
place of radio and debates about programming in the development of
a cultural democracy.
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