LEADER 03607nam 2200505 450 001 9910149191203321 005 20230126214820.0 010 $a0-7735-9981-9 010 $a0-7735-9980-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773599802 035 $a(CKB)3710000000929583 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4730786 035 $a(DE-B1597)655248 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773599802 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000929583 100 $a20161111h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aCanada before television $eradio, taste, and the struggle for cultural democracy /$fLen Kuffert 210 1$aMontreal, [Quebec?bec] :$cMcGill-Queen's University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (235 pages) 311 $a0-7735-4809-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $t?Fashioned as We Go Along? -- $t?Telling Me and No One Else?: Intimacy -- $t?The Only Other People Who Exist?: American Programming -- $t?The Dark Radio Cloud Over Here?: British Affiliation -- $t?We Introduce Ourselves Almost by Force?: Regulating Radio -- $t?Our Job Has Not Been Fully Done?: Music -- $t?Everywhere among All of Us?: Broadcasting and Cultural Democracy -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aBefore screens could be stared at, listeners lent their ears to radio, and Canadian listeners were as avid as any. In Canada before Television, Len Kuffert takes us back to the earliest days of broadcasting, paying particular attention to how programs were imagined and made, loved and hated, regulated and tolerated. At a time when democracy stood out as a foundational value in the West, Canada?s private stations and the CBC often had conflicting ideas about what should or could be broadcast. While historians have documented the nationalist and culturally aspirational motives of some broadcasters, the story behind the production of programs for both broad and specialized audiences has not been as effectively told. By interweaving archival evidence with insights drawn from secondary literature, Canada before Television offers perspectives on radio?s intimate power, the promise and challenge of US programming and British influences, the regulation of taste on the air, shifting and varied musical appetites, and the difficulties of knowing what listeners wanted. While this mixed system divided Canadians then and now, the presence of more than one vision for the emerging medium made the early years of broadcasting in Canada more culturally democratic for listeners who stood a better chance of getting both what they already liked and what they might come to like. Canada before Television offers an insightful look at the place of radio and debates about programming in the development of a cultural democracy. 606 $aRadio broadcasting$zCanada$xHistory 606 $aRadio broadcasting$xSocial aspects$zCanada 606 $aRadio broadcasting policy$zCanada$xHistory 615 0$aRadio broadcasting$xHistory. 615 0$aRadio broadcasting$xSocial aspects 615 0$aRadio broadcasting policy$xHistory. 676 $a384.540971 686 $aAP 34100$2rvk 700 $aKuffert$b Len$0895813 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910149191203321 996 $aCanada before television$92252102 997 $aUNINA