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RAMÓN GÓMEZ DE LA SERNA'S “RADIOTONTERÍA”: A CASE FOR SPANISH RADIO STUDIES

2008; Routledge; Volume: 9; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/14636200802517192

1469-9818

Sarah Demeuse,

Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. According to a census taken by the newspaper El Sol in the spring of 1924, there were 19,000 receivers in Madrid (Balsebre 184). 2. For instance, Radiotelegrafía y radiotelefonía by Rufino Gea Sacasa Gea Sacasa, Rufino. 1927. Radiotelegrafía y radiotelefonía, Madrid: Reus. [Google Scholar], La TSH y los radioconciertos al alcance de todas las fortunas by Manuel Marín Bonell or Radiotelegrafía and radiotelefonía by Juan Sánchez Sánchez y Sánchez , Juan . Radiotelegrafía y radiotelefonía . Valencia , 1923 . [Google Scholar] y Sánchez; see also Luis Ezcurra, p. 347. 3. In comparison with these magazines, the more aristocratically-oriented publications such as Blanco y Negro and La Esfera featured scientific news less frequently in those years. 4. A widely announced exposition in Madrid's modern “Palacio de Hielo” at the end of 1924 truly staged the new invention in a spectacular way. By giving free demonstrations the exhibitors wanted to increase the “real life” aspect of the machine. 5. Ondas reports briefly on the transmission of rooster sounds on 30 October 1927 (p24); a photo showing the “gallo de canto” in front of a rudimentary microphone accompanies the short newsflash. 6. The radio-magazine TSH published in serial form a glossary that provided radio terminology in no less than four languages (Spanish, German, English and French) and so combined the teaching of “radiolingo” with that of foreign languages. 7. The focus on the listener's responsibility to be a herald of progress was also related to the mythologization of the power of radio in other parts of the magazines. Staged as a god-like force, the apparatus stimulated messianic ideas; Díaz Fernández, Zozaya's and Barcia's texts each display this embedded messianism. 8. In fact, the suggestions made in the mid-twenties by these magazine-writers did not differ significantly from experiments carried out during the Second Republic in the thirties. 9. This piece was reviewed in various radiomagazines, see “'Radiomanía’: transmisión radio-telefoni-cómico-lírico-bailable” (TSH 45, March 29th 1925) or “El teatro con humorismo voluntario y figuras cómicas con humorismo involuntario” (Ondas 20, 28 March 1925). 10. “El hombre que vió el más allá” in Radio Ciencia Popular (April-May) or “Viaje al infinito” also in Radio Ciencia Popular (Oct-Dec 1924) are examples of such serialized novels. Representative of the “serious” pieces on the terrific powers of technology are: “Los rayos de la muerte “Los rayos de la muerte ¿o los rayos de la vida?” Radio Ciencia Popular ( 1925 ): 8 – 13 . [Google Scholar]” (Radio Ciencia Popular January 1925), the 1924 “¿Fantasía o Realidad?” in Radio Ciencia Popular, or the 1926 “Reportajes Sensacionales” in Ondas. 11. Gómez de la Serna also describes Don Rafael as a trapeze artist (759), which reminds one of the author's own interest in the circus and his 1923 performance in Madrid's Circo Americano, where he was seated on a trapeze.