Across the Waves

How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio

By: Derek W. Vaillant

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Paperback | 14 December 2017 | Edition Number 1

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The static-filled history of a pioneering radio partnership between two nations In 1931, the United States and France embarked on a broadcasting partnership built around radio. Over time, the transatlantic sonic alliance came to personify and to shape American-French relations in an era of increased global media production and distribution. Drawing on a broad range of American and French archives, Derek Vaillant joins textual and aural materials with original data analytics and maps to illuminate U.S.-French broadcasting's political and cultural development. Vaillant focuses on the period from 1931 until France dismantled its state media system in 1974. His analysis examines mobile actors, circulating programs, and shifting institutions that shaped international radio's use in times of war and peace. He explores the extraordinary achievements, the miscommunications and failures, and the limits of cooperation between America and France as they shaped a new media environment. Throughout, Vaillant explains how radio's power as an instantaneous mass communications tool produced, legitimized, and circulated various notions of states, cultures, ideologies, and peoples as superior or inferior. A first comparative history of its subject, Across the Waves provocatively examines how different strategic agendas, aesthetic aims and technical systems shaped U.S.-French broadcasting and the cultural politics linking the United States and France.

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"Derek Vaillant has written an invaluable account of the lively interactive relationship between French and American radio broadcasting. Its historical sweep, deep research, and illuminating conceptual framework make it a ne pas manquer for anyone interested in one of the twentieth century's closest yet most tempestuous cultural relationships."--Michele Hilmes, author of Network Nations: A Transnational History of British and American Broadcasting "Vaillant's stimulating analysis of a neglected dimension of transatlantic broadcasting brilliantly captures the dynamic interplay of international relations, technological change, and textual innovation, and sheds new light on the place of American radio in the global media landscape of the twentieth century." - Kate Lacey, author of Listening Publics: The Politics and Experience of Listening in the Media Age

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