Cold War On The Airwaves

Author : Nicholas J Schlosser
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252097782

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Cold War on the Airwaves by Nicholas J Schlosser Pdf

Founded as a counterweight to the Communist broadcasters in East Germany, Radio in the American Sector (RIAS) became one of the most successful public information operations conducted against the Soviet Bloc. Cold War on the Airwaves examines the Berlin-based organization's history and influence on the political worldview of the people--and government--on the other side of the Iron Curtain. Nicholas Schlosser draws on broadcast transcripts, internal memoranda, listener letters, and surveys by the U.S. Information Agency to profile RIAS. Its mission: to undermine the German Democratic Republic with propaganda that, ironically, gained in potency by obeying the rules of objective journalism. Throughout, Schlosser examines the friction inherent in such a contradictory project and propaganda's role in shaping political culture. He also portrays how RIAS's primarily German staff influenced its outlook and how the organization both competed against its rivals in the GDR and pushed communist officials to alter their methods in order to keep listeners. From the occupation of Berlin through the airlift to the construction of the Berlin Wall, Cold War on the Airwaves offers an absorbing view of how public diplomacy played out at a flashpoint of East-West tension.

Author : Kevin Grieves
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030656409

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Cold War Journalism by Kevin Grieves Pdf

This book explores Cold War journalism and journalists as threat, representing ‘enemy’ systems and ideologies. The book also examines Cold War aspirations of forging transnational journalistic connections across the Iron Curtain as well as finding common journalistic ground within the East and West blocs. The book shines a critical light on overly idealistic visions for that journalistic common ground, drawing on primary archival source material to investigate journalists and reporting work, journalistic content and journalistic venues during the Cold War era. This is not a book about traditional war correspondence – rather, it is about the rhetorical battles and the ideological fronts that have shaped and continue to shape our world. By fully understanding how journalism and journalists have intersected with hostile barriers and divisions in the past, we can have a more nuanced understanding of the current global media environment.

Author : Eli Nathans
Publisher : Springer
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319506159

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Peter von Zahn's Cold War Broadcasts to West Germany by Eli Nathans Pdf

This book examines the pioneering radio broadcasts and television documentaries about the United States made in the 1950s by the influential West German journalist Peter von Zahn. Part intellectual biography, part analysis of significant debates in West Germany, part study of an intensive encounter with the United States, the book helps explain the transformation of postwar West Germany. As a soldier in the Wehrmacht in World War II, Zahn held the militantly elitist views typical of young men in Germany’s educated middle class. He reconsidered these positions in his postwar broadcasts. At the same time he coldly assessed the capacity of the United States to win the Cold War. His broadcasts examined McCarthyism, the African-American civil rights movement, and numerous aspects of American culture and politics. Zahn’s broadcasts were one important voice in West German debates about the defects and virtues of modern democratic societies and especially of the United States, debates whose intensity reflected recent German experiences with the failure of the Weimar Republic and with Nazism. Zahn’s analyses of the United States remain startlingly relevant today.

Author : Heather Hendershot
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226326764

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What's Fair on the Air? by Heather Hendershot Pdf

The rise of right-wing broadcasting during the Cold War has been mostly forgotten today. But in the 1950s and ’60s you could turn on your radio any time of the day and listen to diatribes against communism, civil rights, the United Nations, fluoridation, federal income tax, Social Security, or JFK, as well as hosannas praising Barry Goldwater and Jesus Christ. Half a century before the rise of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, these broadcasters bucked the FCC’s public interest mandate and created an alternate universe of right-wing political coverage, anticommunist sermons, and pro-business bluster. A lively look back at this formative era, What’s Fair on the Air? charts the rise and fall of four of the most prominent right-wing broadcasters: H. L. Hunt, Dan Smoot, Carl McIntire, and Billy James Hargis. By the 1970s, all four had been hamstrung by the Internal Revenue Service, the FCC’s Fairness Doctrine, and the rise of a more effective conservative movement. But before losing their battle for the airwaves, Heather Hendershot reveals, they purveyed ideological notions that would eventually triumph, creating a potent brew of religion, politics, and dedication to free-market economics that paved the way for the rise of Ronald Reagan, the Moral Majority, Fox News, and the Tea Party.

Author : Jennifer Iverson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190868222

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Electronic Inspirations by Jennifer Iverson Pdf

For a decimated post-war West Germany, the electronic music studio at the WDR radio in Cologne was a beacon of hope. Jennifer Iverson's Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde traces the reclamation and repurposing of wartime machines, spaces, and discourses into the new sounds of the mid-century studio. In the 1950s, when technologies were plentiful and the need for reconstruction was great, West Germany began to rebuild its cultural prestige via aesthetic and technical advances. The studio's composers, collaborating with scientists and technicians, coaxed music from sine-tone oscillators, noise generators, band-pass filters, and magnetic tape. Together, they applied core tenets from information theory and phonetics, reclaiming military communication technologies as well as fascist propaganda broadcasting spaces. The electronic studio nurtured a revolutionary synthesis of science, technology, politics, and aesthetics. Its esoteric sounds transformed mid-century music and continue to reverberate today. Electronic music--echoing both cultural anxiety and promise--is a quintessential Cold War innovation.

Author : Linda Risso
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317373209

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Radio Wars by Linda Risso Pdf

During the Cold War, radio broadcasting played an important role in the ideological confrontation between East and West. As archival documents gathered in this volume reveal, radio broadcasting was among the most pressing concerns of contemporary information agencies. These broadcasts could penetrate the Iron Curtain and directly address the ‘enemy’. Radio was equally important in keeping sustained levels of support among the home public and the public of friendly nations. In the early Cold War in particular, listeners in the West had to be persuaded of the need for higher defence spending levels and a policy of containment. Later, even if other media – and in particular television – had become more important, radio continued to be used widely. The chapters gathered here investigate both the institutional history of the radio broadcasting corporations in the East and in the West, and their relationship with other propaganda agencies of the time. They examine the ‘off-air’ politics of radio broadcasting, from the choice of theme to the selection of speakers, singers and music pieces. The key issue tackled by contributors is the problem of measuring the impact of, and qualifying the success of, information policies and propaganda programmes produced during the Cultural Cold War. This book was originally published as a special issue of Cold War History.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Military history
ISBN : UCBK:C117524040

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Army History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Patrick Doherty
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780231129527

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Cold War, Cool Medium by Thomas Patrick Doherty Pdf

Conventional wisdom holds that television was coconspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, but Doherty argues that it was through television that America actually became a more open and tolerant place.

Author : Christian F. Ostermann
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503607637

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Between Containment and Rollback by Christian F. Ostermann Pdf

In the aftermath of World War II, American policymakers turned to the task of rebuilding Europe while keeping communism at bay. In Germany, formally divided since 1949,the United States prioritized the political, economic, and, eventually, military integration of the fledgling Federal Republic with the West. The extraordinary success story of forging this alliance has dominated our historical under-standing of the American-German relationship. Largely left out of the grand narrative of U.S.–German relations were most East Germans who found themselves caught under Soviet and then communist control by the post-1945 geo-political fallout of the war that Nazi Germany had launched. They were the ones who most dearly paid the price for the country's division. This book writes the East Germans—both leadership and general populace—back into that history as objects of American policy and as historical agents in their own right Based on recently declassified documents from American, Russian, and German archives, this book demonstrates that U.S. efforts from 1945 to 1953 went beyond building a prosperous democracy in western Germany and "containing" Soviet-Communist power to the east. Under the Truman and then the Eisenhower administrations, American policy also included efforts to undermine and "roll back" Soviet and German communist control in the eastern part of the country. This story sheds light on a dark-er side to the American Cold War in Germany: propaganda, covert operations, economic pressure, and psychological warfare. Christian F. Ostermann takes an international history approach, capturing Soviet and East German responses and actions, and drawing a rich and complex picture of the early East–West confrontation in the heart of Europe.

Author : James Schwoch
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780252075698

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Global TV by James Schwoch Pdf

Exploring the relationship between the growth of global media and Cold War tensions and resolutions

Author : Heather Gumbert
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472119196

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Envisioning Socialism by Heather Gumbert Pdf

The first examination in English of East German television during the early Cold War

Author : A. Ross Johnson,R. Eugene Parta
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789639776807

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Cold War Broadcasting by A. Ross Johnson,R. Eugene Parta Pdf

"It was not a matter of propaganda ... black and white ideological broadcasts ... What made [Radio Free Europe] important were its impartiality, independence, and objectivity."---Vaclav Havel "Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty were critically important weapons in the free world's competition with Soviet totalitarianism---and without them the Soviet bloc might even have not disintegrated ... The account in this book of their activities is therefore not only informative, but critical to understanding recent history."---Zbigniew Brzezinski "The studies and translated Soviet bloc documents published in this book demonstrate the enormous impact of Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, and Voice of America during the Cold War. By promoting democratic values and undermining the monopoly of information on which Communist regimes relied, the Radios contributed greatly to the end of the Cold War."---George P. Shultz "I know of no other mass media organization that has done more than RFE/RL to help create the Europe in which we live today---a Europe not divided into two opposing camps."---Elena Bonner Examines the role of Western broadcasting to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War, with a focus on Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. It includes chapters by radio veterans and by scholars who have conducted research on the subject in once-secret Soviet bloc archives and in Western records. It also contains a selection of translated documents from formerly secret Soviet and East European archives, most of them published here for the first time.

Author : Stephen Coates
Publisher : X-Ray Audio
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Cold War
ISBN : 1907222383

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X-ray Audio by Stephen Coates Pdf

Many older people in Russia remember seeing and hearing mysterious vinyl flexi-discs when they were young. They had partial images of skeletons on them, could be played like gramophone records and were called 'bones' or 'ribs'. They contained forbidden music. X-Ray Audio tells the secret history of these ghostly records and of the people who made, bought and sold them. Lavishly illustrated in full colour with images of discs collected in Russia, it is a unique story of forbidden culture, bootleg technology and human endeavour.

Author : M. Alleyne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230507944

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Global Lies? by M. Alleyne Pdf

Mark D. Alleyne analyzes the key role of the UN's public information department in the organization's pursuit of its objectives. The prominence of concepts such as human rights and national self-determination in the international arena is due to the activity of this UN department. Alleyne explores the UN's use of propaganda to shape the agenda of international relations.

Author : Roger Tidy
Publisher : Robert Hale Limited
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0709091494

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Hitler's Radio War by Roger Tidy Pdf

This book tells the story of Nazi international broadcasting before and during the Second World War. Using archival material, it dissects the message that Germany's overt and covert propaganda stations broadcast to their audiences, as well as the lives and motivations of the broadcasters.