Christine Ehrick
Biographic Data
| ID | 702563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Ehrick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Ehrick |
| SIGNATURE | EHRICK C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Louisville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rebekah E. Pite. Sharing Yerba Mate: How South America’s Most Popular Drink Defined a Region
Of Light and Struggle: Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay
Debbie Sharnak's Of Light and Struggle: Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay is a good example of what we can miss if we rely on the so-called big countries to tell us the whole story of a region. Indeed, Sharnak notes that her book exemplifies “how actors from and events in smaller nations influence international history” (p. 85). For historians and other scholars of recent Latin American politics, Of Light and Struggle fi…
Struggles for Recognition: Melodrama and Visibility in Latin American Silent Film
Hollywood's growing influence in Latin America in the early twentieth century coincided and intermingled with an expanding US economic and military presence in the region. Yet at the same time, a nascent silent film industry challenged US hegemony and made visible the diverse political, cultural, and social characteristics of the region. Juan Sebastián Ospina León's Struggles for Recognition: Melodrama and Visibility in Latin American Silent Film…
Buenas Vecinas
During World War II, US-Latin American relations were shaped by the noninterventionist Good Neighbor policy and the projection of soft power via US government-orchestrated public relations and propaganda campaigns. This included extensive film and radio propaganda overseen by the US Office of Inter-American Affairs (OIAA) and disseminated throughout the region. One dimension of that campaign involved radio propaganda aimed specifically at women, …
Listening to postcolonial Latin America: Aurality: listening and knowledge in nineteenth-century Colombia, by Ana María Ochoa Gautier
Spanish America in the nineteenth century was a region seeking to identify and define its boundaries, genealogy, and voice. Following the Wars of Independence in the early decades of the century, m
Forum Introduction: Listening for History
Comedy and Aural Modernity in Argentina: "Tomás Simari's "Un Viaje En ómnibus
In the course of researching and writing my recently published book on women, gender, and golden age radio in Buenos Aires and Montevideo, I became fascinated with the human voice, a rich yet underexplored avenue of historical inquiry. Both “terrifyingly intimate” (in Anne Karpf's words) and a product of its historical and cultural context, the voice is sonic bodily performance and a crucial way in which gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexual…
Radio and the Gendered Soundscape: Women and Broadcasting in Argentina and Uruguay, 1930–1950
This book is a history of women, radio, and the gendered constructions of voice and sound in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Montevideo, Uruguay. Through the stories of five women and one radio station, this study makes a substantial theoretical contribution to the study of gender, mass media, and political culture and expands our knowledge of these issues beyond the US and Western Europe. Included here is a study of the first all-women's radio stat…
Radio and the Gendered Soundscape: Women and Broadcasting in Argentina and Uruguay, 1930-1950
Nené Cascallar's Thirsty Heart
This article is an analysis of the script of an Argentine radio serial, Corazón sediento (Thirsty Heart), that aired on Buenos Aires' Radio Splendid and its network of stations on weekday evenings in June 1954. The drama's author, Nené Cascallar (1914–82), a favorite radio librettist during the first Peronist era (1946–55), was best known for penning erotically charged melodramas aimed at mostly female audiences. In this drama, Cascallar makes pa…
Lindsey Churchill. Becoming the Tupamaros: Solidarity and Transnational Revolutionaries in Uruguay and the United States
In 2009 voters elected José “El Pepe” Mujica to the presidency of the small South American nation of Uruguay. Since then, Mujica has attracted a good deal of attention from international media outlets, who have praised his austere living habits and a series of progressive legislative initiatives passed during his tenure, including the creation of a state marijuana monopoly, the legalization of same sex marriages, and providing a home for both Syr…
Laughing Matters: Understanding film, television and radio comedy
Laughing Matters is an ambitious undertaking, an effort to synthesize an enormous amount of material on film, radio and television comedy in both the US and the UK in a textbook-like volume aimed a
Argentine Serialised Radio Drama in the Infamous Decade, 1930-1943: Transmitting Nationhood
Radio history is an emerging and dynamic field of inquiry, addressing important gaps in media and cultural history as well as broadening our understanding of what Ana Ochoa Gautier calls “the aural public sphere.” While much of this scholarship to date has focused on broadcasting in the United States and Western Europe, we can now add Lauren Rea's Argentine Serialised Radio Drama in the Infamous Decade, 1930–1943 to the list of historical monogra…
Intimidad, divorcio y nueva moral en el Uruguay del Novecientos
It would be hard to overstate the importance of José Pedro Barrán’s contributions to Uruguayan historiography. In some ways, he is Uruguayan historiography. When Professor Barrán passed away in September 2009 at the age of 75, his death made headlines rarely afforded to scholars in the United States. “José Pedro Barrán has died and history will never be the same,” declared the Uruguayan paper La República. The author or coauthor of at least 30 vo…
Beneficent Cinema: State Formation, Elite Reproduction, and Silent Film in Uruguay, 1910s–1920s
In her study of early cinema and modernity in Latin America, Ana López wrote: “Latin American modernity has been a global, intertextual experience, addressing impulses and models from abroad, in which every nation and region created, and creates, its own ways of playing with and at modernity.” Early Uruguayan cinema exemplifies this interaction of global phenomena with local realities and thus provides an instructive window onto some of the ways …
To Serve the Nation: Juvenile Mothers, Paternalism, and State Formation in Uruguay, 1910–1930
This article looks at the construction and evolution of Latin America’s first “welfare state” through the lens of social assistance. What one sees in Uruguay during these years is a modernization of paternalism, whereby the state assumed some of the roles previously played by the elite and, to a lesser extent, the Catholic Church, protecting and assisting society’s “weak” without fundamentally challenging or altering class or gender inequalities …
Affectionate Mothers and the Colossal Machine: Feminism, Social Assistance and the State in Uruguay, 1910-1932
In 1910, the Uruguayan Public Assistance Law established the concept of universal poor relief, declaring that “anyone ... indigent or lacking resources has the right to free assistance at the expense of the state.” Nothing better than this law qualifies Uruguay for its distinction as the ‘first welfare state’ in Latin America. As in other countries, much of the first social assistance legislation targeted poor women and children and relied on eli…
Madrinas and Missionaries: Uruguay and the Pan‐American Women's Movement
Newsbriefs
Madrinas and Missionaries: Uruguay and the Pan‐American Women's Movement
Affectionate Mothers and the Colossal Machine: Feminism, Social Assistance and the State in Uruguay, 1910-1932
In 1910, the Uruguayan Public Assistance Law established the concept of universal poor relief, declaring that “anyone ... indigent or lacking resources has the right to free assistance at the expense of the state.” Nothing better than this law qualifies Uruguay for its distinction as the ‘first welfare state’ in Latin America. As in other countries, much of the first social assistance legislation targeted poor women and children and relied on eli…
Beneficent Cinema: State Formation, Elite Reproduction, and Silent Film in Uruguay, 1910s–1920s
In her study of early cinema and modernity in Latin America, Ana López wrote: “Latin American modernity has been a global, intertextual experience, addressing impulses and models from abroad, in which every nation and region created, and creates, its own ways of playing with and at modernity.” Early Uruguayan cinema exemplifies this interaction of global phenomena with local realities and thus provides an instructive window onto some of the ways …
Forum Introduction: Listening for History
Newsbriefs
Madrinas and Missionaries: Uruguay and the Pan‐American Women's Movement
Affectionate Mothers and the Colossal Machine: Feminism, Social Assistance and the State in Uruguay, 1910-1932
In 1910, the Uruguayan Public Assistance Law established the concept of universal poor relief, declaring that “anyone ... indigent or lacking resources has the right to free assistance at the expense of the state.” Nothing better than this law qualifies Uruguay for its distinction as the ‘first welfare state’ in Latin America. As in other countries, much of the first social assistance legislation targeted poor women and children and relied on eli…
To Serve the Nation: Juvenile Mothers, Paternalism, and State Formation in Uruguay, 1910–1930
This article looks at the construction and evolution of Latin America’s first “welfare state” through the lens of social assistance. What one sees in Uruguay during these years is a modernization of paternalism, whereby the state assumed some of the roles previously played by the elite and, to a lesser extent, the Catholic Church, protecting and assisting society’s “weak” without fundamentally challenging or altering class or gender inequalities …
Beneficent Cinema: State Formation, Elite Reproduction, and Silent Film in Uruguay, 1910s–1920s
In her study of early cinema and modernity in Latin America, Ana López wrote: “Latin American modernity has been a global, intertextual experience, addressing impulses and models from abroad, in which every nation and region created, and creates, its own ways of playing with and at modernity.” Early Uruguayan cinema exemplifies this interaction of global phenomena with local realities and thus provides an instructive window onto some of the ways …
Intimidad, divorcio y nueva moral en el Uruguay del Novecientos
It would be hard to overstate the importance of José Pedro Barrán’s contributions to Uruguayan historiography. In some ways, he is Uruguayan historiography. When Professor Barrán passed away in September 2009 at the age of 75, his death made headlines rarely afforded to scholars in the United States. “José Pedro Barrán has died and history will never be the same,” declared the Uruguayan paper La República. The author or coauthor of at least 30 vo…
Laughing Matters: Understanding film, television and radio comedy
Laughing Matters is an ambitious undertaking, an effort to synthesize an enormous amount of material on film, radio and television comedy in both the US and the UK in a textbook-like volume aimed a
Argentine Serialised Radio Drama in the Infamous Decade, 1930-1943: Transmitting Nationhood
Radio history is an emerging and dynamic field of inquiry, addressing important gaps in media and cultural history as well as broadening our understanding of what Ana Ochoa Gautier calls “the aural public sphere.” While much of this scholarship to date has focused on broadcasting in the United States and Western Europe, we can now add Lauren Rea's Argentine Serialised Radio Drama in the Infamous Decade, 1930–1943 to the list of historical monogra…
Radio and the Gendered Soundscape: Women and Broadcasting in Argentina and Uruguay, 1930–1950
This book is a history of women, radio, and the gendered constructions of voice and sound in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Montevideo, Uruguay. Through the stories of five women and one radio station, this study makes a substantial theoretical contribution to the study of gender, mass media, and political culture and expands our knowledge of these issues beyond the US and Western Europe. Included here is a study of the first all-women's radio stat…
Radio and the Gendered Soundscape: Women and Broadcasting in Argentina and Uruguay, 1930-1950
Nené Cascallar's Thirsty Heart
This article is an analysis of the script of an Argentine radio serial, Corazón sediento (Thirsty Heart), that aired on Buenos Aires' Radio Splendid and its network of stations on weekday evenings in June 1954. The drama's author, Nené Cascallar (1914–82), a favorite radio librettist during the first Peronist era (1946–55), was best known for penning erotically charged melodramas aimed at mostly female audiences. In this drama, Cascallar makes pa…
Lindsey Churchill. Becoming the Tupamaros: Solidarity and Transnational Revolutionaries in Uruguay and the United States
In 2009 voters elected José “El Pepe” Mujica to the presidency of the small South American nation of Uruguay. Since then, Mujica has attracted a good deal of attention from international media outlets, who have praised his austere living habits and a series of progressive legislative initiatives passed during his tenure, including the creation of a state marijuana monopoly, the legalization of same sex marriages, and providing a home for both Syr…
Forum Introduction: Listening for History
Comedy and Aural Modernity in Argentina: "Tomás Simari's "Un Viaje En ómnibus
In the course of researching and writing my recently published book on women, gender, and golden age radio in Buenos Aires and Montevideo, I became fascinated with the human voice, a rich yet underexplored avenue of historical inquiry. Both “terrifyingly intimate” (in Anne Karpf's words) and a product of its historical and cultural context, the voice is sonic bodily performance and a crucial way in which gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexual…
Listening to postcolonial Latin America: Aurality: listening and knowledge in nineteenth-century Colombia, by Ana María Ochoa Gautier
Spanish America in the nineteenth century was a region seeking to identify and define its boundaries, genealogy, and voice. Following the Wars of Independence in the early decades of the century, m
Buenas Vecinas
During World War II, US-Latin American relations were shaped by the noninterventionist Good Neighbor policy and the projection of soft power via US government-orchestrated public relations and propaganda campaigns. This included extensive film and radio propaganda overseen by the US Office of Inter-American Affairs (OIAA) and disseminated throughout the region. One dimension of that campaign involved radio propaganda aimed specifically at women, …
Struggles for Recognition: Melodrama and Visibility in Latin American Silent Film
Hollywood's growing influence in Latin America in the early twentieth century coincided and intermingled with an expanding US economic and military presence in the region. Yet at the same time, a nascent silent film industry challenged US hegemony and made visible the diverse political, cultural, and social characteristics of the region. Juan Sebastián Ospina León's Struggles for Recognition: Melodrama and Visibility in Latin American Silent Film…
Of Light and Struggle: Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay
Debbie Sharnak's Of Light and Struggle: Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay is a good example of what we can miss if we rely on the so-called big countries to tell us the whole story of a region. Indeed, Sharnak notes that her book exemplifies “how actors from and events in smaller nations influence international history” (p. 85). For historians and other scholars of recent Latin American politics, Of Light and Struggle fi…
Rebekah E. Pite. Sharing Yerba Mate: How South America’s Most Popular Drink Defined a Region
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Latin Americans (5 works) · Music History and Culture (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)