Radio and Populism in Brazil

Abstract

Brazil, as well as several Latin American countries, experienced a strong nationalistic movement in the first half of the twentieth century, which was mainly due to the emergence of urban masses. During the same period, the radio began to broadcast and take part in the Brazilian society. This article aims at analyzing the role of the radio during Getúlio Vargas’s populist government (1930-1945).

Telenovelas and representations of national identity in Brazil

“…First, Anderson insists upon literacy as the basis for national sentiments, but neglects the role of popular culture and audiovisual media (Radcliffe and Westwood, 1996: 12;Rowe and Schelling, 1991: 24-5;Schlesinger, 1987). As the Latin American context suggests, imagined national communities are shaped not only by novels (Sommer, 1991), but also by technologies such as film (Lopez, 2000;Shaw and Dennison, 2005) and radio (Haussen, 2005;Hayes, 2000). In the specific case of Brazil, television has established mass ceremonies much broader and more significant in scope than the public forums created by print media.…”

Right-Wing Pirate Radio Broadcasting in Israel: The Political Discourse About Channel 7, 1993–2003

“…Fourth, radio broadcasting acts as cultural mediation, enabling the emergence and diffusion of a new language and a new, popular social discourse. This aspect relates to the culture mediated by modernization projects developed by the state (Haussen, 2005). Fifth, talk radio can also be analyzed as a form of interpersonal communication and as an arena for the presentation of the self (O'Sullivan, 2005).…”