Radio and the Politics of Sound in Interwar France, 1921-1939
Author
Rebecca P. Scales (Rochester Institute Of Technology, New York)
Drawing from a wide range of archival sources, this study illustrates the resonance of radio within early twentieth-century debates. It rejects the idea of radio as a tool for a totalitarian state and instead offers a more nuanced picture of the impact of broadcasting on 1930s politics in interwar France.