Gogo Breeze
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activism
advice
africa
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aging
Author_Harri Englund
authority
automatic-update
breeze fm
broadcast
call in show
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=APW
Category=JHMC
Category=JPVH2
charity
chipata
communication
COP=United States
creativity
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
elder hood
elders
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ethics
ethnography
feminism
fieldwork
free speech
grandfather
hierarchy
identity
individualism
industry
labor
Language_English
mass media
nonfiction
PA=Available
paternalism
politics
polyphony
post colonialism
Price_€50 to €100
PS=Active
public opinion
radio
retirement
rhetoric
schoolteacher
softlaunch
transgression
voice
working conditions
Zambia
Product details
- ISBN 9780226498768
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 08 Feb 2018
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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.
Harri Englund is professor of social anthropology at the University of Cambridge.
