Cultural Politics and the Mass Media
Subtitle: ALASKA NATIVE VOICES (History of Communication)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: July 19, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780252029387
Subjects: American studies; Indigenous peoples; Media Studies; Social Science; Sociology; North America; Anthropology - Cultural; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Media Studies - Electronic Media; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Alaska; Ethnic identity; Indian mass media; Indians of North America; Indigenous peoples and mass me; Indigenous peoples and mass media
Description: "The book investigates the inextricable connections between indigenous people's profound sense of place, their subsistence cultural practices, and their needs and desires to communicate through community and mass media. It is arranged chronologically, and describes the advent of indigenous media outlets such as the Alaska Fisherman. Founded in 1923, it was the territory's first Native-owned-and-operated newspaper and quickly became the voice of Native opposition to commercial fishing interests. Similarly, the authors detail the formation of KYUK-AM in 1971, the first community radio station to program in both the English and Yup'ik languages." "Through these empirically grounded studies, the authors demonstrate that freedom for indigenous peoples is not only premised on control over their political economy, but also on their capacity to tell their own stories. In so doing, they develop a powerful, historically grounded argument for understanding cultural persistence as a valuable and vital form of self-determination."--BOOK JACKET.