Title Acoustic properties : radio, narrative, and the new neighborhood of the Americas / Tom McEnaney

Published Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Series Flashpoints FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.) Contents Preface: Wireless cultures -- Introduction: Learning to listen -- The New (Deal) Acoustics -- "On the national hookup" : radio, character networks, and U.S.A -- The sound of the good neighbor : radio, realism, and real estate -- Struggling words : public housing, sound technologies, and the position of speech -- Occupying the airwaves -- Tears in the ether : the rise of the radionovela -- Radio's revolutions -- Hand-to-hand speech -- House taken over : listening, writing and the politics of the common place in Manuel Puig's fiction -- The ends of radio : tape, property & popular voice Summary Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas discovers the prehistory of wireless culture. It examines the coevolution of radio and the novel in Argentina, Cuba, and the United States from the early 1930s to the late 1960s, as well as the various populist political climates in which the emerging medium of radio became the chosen means to produce the voice of the people. Based on original archival research in Buenos Aires, Havana, Paris, and the United States, the book develops a literary media theory that understands sound as a transmedial phenomenon and radio as a transnational medium. Analyzing the construction of new social and political relations in the wake of the United States' 1930s Good Neighbor Policy, Acoustic Properties challenges standard narratives of hemispheric influence through new readings of Richard Wright's cinematic work in Argentina, Severo Sarduy's radio plays in France, and novels by John Dos Passos, Manuel Puig, Raymond Chandler, and Carson McCullers. Alongside these writers, the book also explores Che Guevara and Fidel Castro's Radio Rebelde, FDR's fireside chats, Félix Caignet's invention of the radionovela in Cuba, Evita Perón's populist melodramas in Argentina, Orson Welles's experimental New Deal radio, Cuban and U.S. "radio wars," and the 1960s African American activist Robert F. Williams's proto-black power Radio Free Dixie. From the doldrums of the Great Depression to the tumult of the Cuban Revolution, Acoustic Properties illuminates how novelists in the radio age converted writing into a practice of listening, transforming realism as they struggled to channel and shape popular power. Book jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Radio broadcasting -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century Radio broadcasting -- Political aspects -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century Radio broadcasting -- Political aspects -- Argentina -- History -- 20th century American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Cuban literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Argentine literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Radio and literature. Radio authorship. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies. American literature Argentine literature Cuban literature Radio and literature Radio authorship Radio broadcasting -- Political aspects Argentina Cuba United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780810135406 081013540X

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