World music at the BBC World Service, 1942-2008
Public diplomacy, cosmopolitanism, contradiction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11267883 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jason Toynbee (OPEN UNIVERSITY, MILTON KEYNES, UK,, corresponding author), Farida Vis (Loughborough University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 547-564 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Media Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0163443710367691 |
| OpenAlex | W1965886928 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 14 |
Music plays an important role in the BBC World Service. This article shows how, across sixty five years, notionally global music has been broadcast as a pragmatic way of reaching audiences beyond Britain. There is a contradiction here. The scheduling of 'world music' undoubtedly represents a cosmopolitan imperative to embrace cultural difference. Yet it is also an instrumental means of framing programmes and appealing to those audiences which are particularly significant for the funders of the Service, namely the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Through analysis of music programming and commentary at three conjunctures (World War Two, the 1980s and the contemporary period) a changing, yet in certain respects continuous, pattern in the use of music for public diplomacy is discerned. The article concludes by suggesting that \noptimistic readings of cosmopolitanism fail to account sufficiently for the contradictions at stake here, contradictions which arise from persisting unequal relations of global power
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2016 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |