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Author Stanton, Andrea L.

Title "This is Jerusalem calling" : state radio in mandate Palestine / by Andrea L. Stanton.

Publication Info. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2013.

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource (ix, 258 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome.
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-246) and index.
Contents 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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Subject Palestine Broadcasting Service -- History.
Palestine Broadcasting Service.
History.
Radio broadcasting -- Palestine -- History.
Radio broadcasting.
Radio -- Palestine -- History.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Radio.
Radio.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- Israel.
Middle East -- Palestine.
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: Stanton, Andrea L. This is Jerusalem calling. 1st ed. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2013 9780292747494 (DLC) 2012044365 (OCoLC)820553393
ISBN 9780292747500 (electronic book)
0292747500 (electronic book)
9780292742550 (ebook)
029274255X (ebook)
9780292747494
0292747497