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Listening Out, Listening For, Listening In: Cold War Radio Broadcasting and the Late Soviet Audience

Roth-Ey, K; (2020) Listening Out, Listening For, Listening In: Cold War Radio Broadcasting and the Late Soviet Audience. Russian Review , 79 (4) pp. 556-577. 10.1111/russ.12285. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

This article interrogates the well-known phenomenon of western broadcasting to the Soviet Union from the little-known vantage point of the audience's sonic experience and expression. I use the example of the BBC's main popular music program in the late USSR, Rok posevy, with its remarkable presenter, Seva Novgorodsev, to explore fundamental questions about the who, how, and why of listening to the so-called “enemy voices.” The popularity of Novgorodsev's show, I argue, is best understood in the context of the Soviet soundscape and, in particular, of longstanding Soviet media practices, including radio jamming and Soviet ideologies of the voice. Novgorodsev's Rok posevy presented listeners with a powerful alternative sociocultural space, one that promoted models of authority and community very different from Soviet norms and, indeed, antithetical to Soviet norms.

Type: Article
Title: Listening Out, Listening For, Listening In: Cold War Radio Broadcasting and the Late Soviet Audience
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1111/russ.12285
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/russ.12285
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright 2020 The Author. The Russian Review published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of the Board of Trustees of The Russian Review. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > SSEES
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10110021
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