This Is Jerusalem Calling : : State Radio in Mandate Palestine /

This Is Jerusalem Calling : : State Radio in Mandate Palestine / / Andrea L. Stanton.

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Modeled after the BBC, the Palestine Broadcasting Service was launched in 1936 to serve as the national radio station of Mandate Palestine, playing a pivotal role in shaping the culture of the emerging middle class in the region. Despite its significance, the PBS has become nearly forgotten by schol...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Stanton, Andrea L.,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2013
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (270 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Tuning in to Palestine’s Radio History
  • 1. Selling Radio, Selling Radios: Advertising Sets in Mandate Palestine
  • 2. Peasants into Palestinians: Rural and School Broadcasting
  • 3. Broadcasting a Nationalist Modernity: The PBS Arabic Section
  • 4. Putting Religion on the Radio
  • 5. Claiming the PBS: Whose National Radio?
  • Conclusion: The Multiple Afterlives of the PBS
  • Timeline
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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