Voices in Ruins: West German Radio Across the 1945 Divide

Immediately after the Second World War, the radio was the best-preserved medium of mass communication in Germany. This book explores the implications of this dominance by asking how everyday broadcasting constructed ideas of 'normal' times, people and places in the destroyed, divided and occupied zones of what would become the Federal Republic.

Author: A. Badenoch
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 07/24/2008
Pages: 289
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.60w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780230009035

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 01/23/2009 pg. 19

About the Author
ALEXANDER BADENOCH received his PhD in Modern Languages from the University of Southampton in the UK and has recently completed a post-doc on infrastructures and European identity at the Technical University of Eindhoven. He currently lives in the Netherlands.

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