• ISBN13: 9780708325438
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Communication, Mass Media and Journalism
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publisher Imprint: University of Wales Press
• Publication Date: December 30, 2012
• Pages: 224
• Original Price: GBP 65.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 402 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Media Studies

Whether at a local, national, or international level, radio has played and continues to play a key role in nurturing or denying--even destroying--people's sense of collective identity. The essays in this volume provide a historical and contemporary overview of radio in small nations. A number of representative small nations are featured: some grappling with new postcolonial identities and others still operating under repressive regimes; some struggling to find a new common purpose in the postindustrial age and others unifying previously ignored ethnic or language groups. As a whole, the collection strives to present diverse voices commenting on the influential and essential place of radio within these countries.