Introduction : tuning in to Palestine's radio history -- Selling radio, selling radios : advertising sets in mandate Palestine -- Peasants into Palestinians : rural and school broadcasting -- Broadcasting a nationalist modernity : the PBS Arabic section -- Putting religion on the radio -- Claiming the PBS : whose national radio? -- Conclusion : the multiple afterlives of the PBS
Summary
This history of the long-overlooked Palestine Broadcasting Service (1936-1948) examines the role of government-sponsored radio in shaping Arab political and social life in the wake of British colonialism
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-246) and index