{"title":"Modernizing a nation through its radio and television industry: RCA Victor in Chile, 1928-1973","authors":"Francisco Garrido, Ricardo Paredes","doi":"10.1080/07341512.2021.2004008","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The RCA Victor company in Chile portrayed itself as a participant in the nation’s progress. Its success was part of a larger governmental plan to boost the industrial capacities of the country, during a period marked by political polarization and extensive demographic changes in terms of rural to urban migration, the formation of a working middle class, and greater investment in education. Their electronic devices were intimately linked to this broader socio-political context, where both state and partner industries presented technological production in terms of national pride and progress. Via a material culture analysis and archival sources related to the history and production of RCA Victor in Chile, we show and argue that its technological devices were shaped actively by and participated in the complexities and contradictions of the social and political changes of the era.","PeriodicalId":45996,"journal":{"name":"History and Technology","volume":"15 1","pages":"379 - 395"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"History and Technology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07341512.2021.2004008","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT The RCA Victor company in Chile portrayed itself as a participant in the nation’s progress. Its success was part of a larger governmental plan to boost the industrial capacities of the country, during a period marked by political polarization and extensive demographic changes in terms of rural to urban migration, the formation of a working middle class, and greater investment in education. Their electronic devices were intimately linked to this broader socio-political context, where both state and partner industries presented technological production in terms of national pride and progress. Via a material culture analysis and archival sources related to the history and production of RCA Victor in Chile, we show and argue that its technological devices were shaped actively by and participated in the complexities and contradictions of the social and political changes of the era.
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History and Technology serves as an international forum for research on technology in history. A guiding premise is that technology—as knowledge, practice, and material resource—has been a key site for constituting the human experience. In the modern era, it becomes central to our understanding of the making and transformation of societies and cultures, on a local or transnational scale. The journal welcomes historical contributions on any aspect of technology but encourages research that addresses this wider frame through commensurate analytic and critical approaches.
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