Developing Radio Histories

Kuitenbrouwer, Vincent; Luscombe, Anya; Wijfjes, Hubertus

doi:10.18146/tmg.593

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“…After Hanso Idzerda broadcasted his first programme from his home annex office in The Hague, he received letters from enthusiastic radio amateurs in London who had picked up the signal. 31 In the following decades, radio broadcasters actively reached out to international audiences and developed special formats to do this effectively. In the 1930s the regimes in the Axis-powers actively started to make propaganda abroad, Nazi Germany with the transmitter at Zeesen and Fascist Italy with the transmitter in Bari.…”

Section: R a D I O : A U D I O A N D P A P E R S O U R C E Smentioning

confidence: 99%

Audio on Paper: The Merits and Pitfalls of the Dutch Digital Media Archive for Studying Transnational Entanglements during the Second World War

Brolsma,

Kuitenbrouwer

2023

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This paper traces the transnational entanglements in the Dutch digital media archive, with a focus on the propaganda battle between pro-Nazi and pro-Allied Dutch media during the Second World War. Reflecting on newspaper and radio source materials in the CLARIAH Media Suite, it points out significant differences in the availability of these two source collections. It argues that these imbalances can be explained by the historical context in which these sources were created as well as by archival policies after 1945. The main problem lies in the digitized radio archive which contains only a relatively small amount of audio and leaves out the enormous amount of documents, such as transcripts and monitoring reports. With our article, we ask for more attention for this form of ‘audio on paper’, which has previously been overlooked by scholars and archivists. In the conclusion we argue for the digitization of these source materials and inclusion in the Media Suite as a first step towards redrawing the borders of media archives, enabling a new research agenda aimed at studying transnational entanglements in war time propaganda.

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confidence: 99%