Radio and the Gendered Soundscape: Women and Broadcasting in Argentina and Uruguay, 19301950 [Hardcover]

This book is a history of women, radio, and the gendered constructions of voice and sound in Argentina and Uruguay.This book is a history of women's voices on the radio in two of South America's most important early radio markets. It explores what it meant to hear female voices on the radio and asks readers to consider gender in its aural and sonic dimensions.This book is a history of women's voices on the radio in two of South America's most important early radio markets. It explores what it meant to hear female voices on the radio and asks readers to consider gender in its aural and sonic dimensions.This book is a history of women, radio, and the gendered constructions of voice and sound in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Montevideo, Uruguay. Through the stories of five women and one radio station, this study makes a substantial theoretical contribution to the study of gender, mass media, and political culture and expands our knowledge of these issues beyond the U.S. and Western Europe. Included here is a study of the first all-women's radio station in the Western Hemisphere, an Argentine comedian known as Chaplin in Skirts, an author of titillating dramatic serials and, of course, Argentine First Lady Evita Per?n. Through the concept of the gendered soundscape, this study integrates sound studies and gender history in new ways, asking readers to consider both the female voice in history and the sonic dimensions of gender.Introduction: gender in and on the air; 1. Radio and the modern girl: Silvia Guerrico and Buenos Aires broadcasting; 2. A station for women in Montevideo: Radio Femenina; 3. Feminism and populism on the airwaves: Paulina Luisi and Eva Duarte de Per?n; 4. Chaplin in Skirts? Nin? Marshall; 5. Nen? Cascallar: airing clean and dirty longing; Echoes of soundscapes past: epilogue and conclusion. Through a series of beautifully written accounts of women's voices as they resounded in R?o de la Plata's midcentury soundscape, this book will change the waylS,