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Title Gogo Breeze : Zambia's radio elder and the voices of free speech / Harri Englund
Imprint Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018
©2018

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 Malmö stadsarkiv:Dawit Isaak-magasinet  384.5 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Descript xi, 280 s. ; 24 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references and index
Content Being Gogo Breeze -- Mass-mediated elderhood -- The grandfather's voices -- Obligations on and off air -- On air: beyond charity -- Off air: private service -- Women and children -- Between feminisms and paternalisms -- Children's voices -- Coda -- Radio obligations -- Appendix A: confronting mill owners -- Appendix B: helping Miriam Nkhoma
Note When Breeze FM Radio, in the provincial Zambian town of Chipata, hired an elderly retired school teacher in 2003, no one anticipated the skyrocketing success that would follow. A self-styled grandfather on air, Gogo Breeze seeks intimacy over the airwaves and dispenses advice on a wide variety of grievances and transgressions. Multiple voices are broadcast and juxtaposed through call-ins and dialogue, but free speech finds its ally in the radio elder who, by allowing people to be heard and supporting their claims, reminds authorities of their obligations toward the disaffected. Harri Englund provides a masterfully detailed study of this popular radio personality that addresses broad questions of free speech in Zambia and beyond. By drawing on ethnographic insights into political communication, Englund presents multivocal morality as an alternative to dominant Euro-American perspectives, displacing the simplistic notion of voice as individual personal property an idea common in both policy and activist rhetoric. Instead, Englund focuses on the creativity and polyphony of Zambian radio while raising important questions about hierarchy, elderhood, and ethics in the public sphere. A lively, engaging portrait of an extraordinary personality, Gogo Breeze will interest Africanists, scholars of radio and mass media, and anyone interested in the history and future of free speech
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Subject Gogo Breeze
Breeze FM (Radio station : Zambia)
Radiosändning
Massmedia - sociala aspekter
Yttrandefrihet
Dawit Isaak-biblioteket
Radio broadcasting -- Zambia
Mass media -- Social aspects -- Zambia
Mass media -- Social aspects
Radio broadcasting
Mass media
Radio
Broadcasting
Freedom of speech
Zambia
Zambia
Classmark 384.54092 B
Bua
ISBN/ISSN 9780226498935
022649893X
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