{"id":16964,"date":"2020-09-24T14:27:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T13:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/?p=16964"},"modified":"2022-10-02T11:40:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T10:40:09","slug":"powerful-frequencies-radio-state-power-and-the-cold-war-in-angola-1931-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/powerful-frequencies-radio-state-power-and-the-cold-war-in-angola-1931-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful Frequencies  Radio, State Power, and the Cold War in Angola, 1931\u20132002"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;5px&#8221;][vc_separator color=&#8221;black&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>Book launch:<\/strong> Powerful Frequencies, Radio, State Power, and the Cold War in Angola by Marissa J. Moorman<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 3rd | 4 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The launch takes place in person by appointment and also transmitted online.<\/p>\n<p>To participate in the event please send an email to register: hangarcia.production@gmail.com<\/p>\n<p>Live streaming will be available on Facebook.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;16965&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]Powerful Frequencies details the central role that radio technology and broadcasting played in the formation of colonial Portuguese Southern Africa and the postcolonial nation-state, Angola. Moorman analyzes the history of Angolan radio as an instrument used byPortuguese settlers, the colonial state, African nationalists, and the postcolonial state. They all used radio to project power, while the latter employed it to challenge empire.<\/p>\n<p>From the 1930s introduction of radio by settlers, to the clandestine broadcasts of guerrilla groups, to radio\u2019s use in the Portuguese counterinsurgency strategy during the Cold War era and in developing the independent state\u2019s national and regional voice, Powerful Frequencies narrates a history of canny listeners, committed professionals, and dissenting political movements. All of these actors employed radio\u2019s peculiarities\u2014invisibility, ephemerality, and its material effects\u2014to transgress social, political, \u201cphysical,\u201d and intellectual borders. Powerful Frequencies follows radio\u2019s traces in film, literature, and music to illustrate how the technology\u2019s sonic power\u2014even when it made some listeners anxious and frightened\u2014created and transformed the late colonial and independent Angolan soundscape.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<strong>Marissa J. Moorman<\/strong> is Professor of African History and Cinema and Media Studies at Indiana University. She is the author of Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, 1945 to Recent Times. She is on the editorial board of Africa Is a Country, where she regularly writes about politics and culture.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 3rd 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[240,286],"class_list":["post-16964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2020-en","tag-previous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16964"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20378,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16964\/revisions\/20378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}