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The Voice and Its Doubles: Media and Music in Northern Australia
Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7442-8
Publication date:
2016
Book Chapter
Mediating Kinship: Radio’s Cultural Poetics
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Published:April 2016
This chapter explores the relationship between forms of Aboriginal incarceration, kinship, and emergent expressive idioms entailed by radio request programs. These programs draw together recorded speech with the poetics of country music and aim to reconnect kin dispersed across the prisons and hospitals of Australia’s North. In tying expressive speech to recorded song, request programs create possibilities for creative, intertextual reference across the speech-song boundary, allowing requesters and DJs to draw forms of kinship reference together with well-known, moving tropes of country song in maximally affecting, pointed forms of address. The chapter draws on sociolinguistic frameworks of social deixis and...
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