Radio nation
Subtitle: communication, popular culture, and nationalism in Mexico, 1920-1950
By: Joy Elizabeth Hayes.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
Subjects: Radio broadcasting -- Mexico -- History.; Radio broadcasting -- Social aspects -- Mexico.; Radio broadcasting policy -- Mexico.
Description: "This book investigates the intersection of radio broadcasting and nation building. Hayes tells how both government-controlled and private radio stations produced programs of distinctly Mexican folk and popular music as a means of drawing the country's regions together and countering the influence of U.S. broadcasts.".

"Hayes describes how, both during and after the period of cultural revolution, Mexico radio broadcasting was shaped by the clash and collaboration of different social forces - including U.S. interests, Mexican media entrepreneurs, state institutions, and radio audiences.

She traces the evolution of Mexican radio in case studies that focus on such subjects as early government broadcasting activities, the role of Mexico City media elites, the "paternal voice" of presidential addresses, and U.S. propaganda during World War II.".

"More than narrative history, Hayes's study provides an analytical framework for understanding the role of radio in building Mexican nationalism at a critical time in that nation's history. Radio Nation expands our appreciation of an overlooked medium that changed the course of an entire country."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-147) and index.