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‘The constant companion of man’: Separate Development, Radio Bantu and music

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Charles Hamm
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It is a common argument by now that the modern mass media and the music they disseminate have been ‘used by economically and politically powerful interests within the state to support the capitalist relations of production and to legitimise the social, economic and political organisation of society’ (Tomaselli et al. 1986, p. 19). Criticism directed more specifically at radio has focused chiefly on capitalist societies in which there are multiple channels of entertainment and information. A recent issue of the present journal devoted to radio, for instance, was concerned only with the UK, Canada, and the USA (Popular Music, 9/2, 1990). Little critical attention has been focused on the use of radio to ‘legitimise the social, economic and political organisation of society’ in countries in which the state assumes full control over programming and transmission.

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Popular Music , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , May 1991 , pp. 147 - 173
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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