Finding a new British Asian sound on BBC Radio : the South Asian diaspora in Britain and BBC Radio / / Liam McCarthy

• Autore: McCarthy Liam
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2023; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (205 pages)
• Disciplina: 384.5443089914041
• Soggetto topico: Radio broadcasting - Great Britain - South Asian influences; Radio broadcasting, South Asian; South Asian diaspora; South Asians - Great Britain; South Asians in mass media
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Abstract -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Purpose of This Book -- My Positionality: And South Asian Contributors -- References -- Chapter 2: BBC Radio and the South Asian Diaspora -- 'Doing as Little as Possible': BBC Radio's First Response to South Asian Immigration -- BBC Local Radio: From 'Programmes for Immigrants' to Social Cohesion -- The BBC and a New British Asian Identity -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Failing the Diversity Test: The BBC and the Legacy of a Policy Vacuum -- An 'Out of Touch' BBC: A Legacy of Failed and Ignored Diversity Policies -- BBC Journalism: An Editorial 'whiteness' -- BBC Local Radio: A Creative but Policy-free Zone -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Finding a New 'British Asian Sound' -- Youthquake? An Emerging Second Generation of British Asian Broadcasters -- 'Doing the Splits': Government Policy and Asian Programming. -- BBC Local Radio: Expansion and Building a Critical Mass of South Asian Talent -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Making a British Asian Sound: The Pioneers of Asian Radio on the BBC -- Radio as a Core Part of Teenage Listening -- Getting into the BBC -- Welcome Here? Fitting in to the BBC -- Conclusion -- References -- Interviewees -- Chapter 6: Networking the British Asian Sound: The BBC Asian Network and BBC Local Radio -- How Did the 'British Asian sound' Come to Dominate the BBC Asian Network? -- Driving Change to the BBC Asian Network: The Flawed Pursuit of a Young British Asian Audience -- Where Should BBC Local Radio Fit in to the 2020s Ecology of National and Local Asian Services? -- Conclusion: A Way Forward for Asian Content from BBC Radio? -- References -- Appendix A: Hours of Weekly Asian Programming on BBC Local Radio, 1969-1994 -- Appendix B: Asian Programme Recordings from BBC Local Radio, 1977-1994 -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores the contrasting responses to the South Asian diaspora in Britain of BBC local radio and BBC network radio. It highlights the hidden history of how BBC local radio stations developed a schedule of five thousand hours a year of programmes targeted at South Asian communities in England. Local radio stations at the periphery of the BBC built deep and influential connections with marginalised Asian communities, creating the BBC Asian Network in 1989 and played an influential part in building local social cohesion. This contrasts with central BBC policy that reveals a management culture resistant to change and unable to embrace an increasingly diverse Britain - creating a problematic legacy for the BBC. Finding a New British Asian Sound brings new insights into current debates around policy and institutional racism at the BBC, where South Asian programming on local and network radio remains at risk of closure.
• Titolo autorizzato: Finding a New British Asian Sound on BBC Radio
• ISBN: 3-031-35620-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910746294203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II