<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This article deals with the formation and first development of the radio genre system in Norway in the interwar years (1925-1940). It is shown that the programmes of the 1920s were mostly imperfect reproductions of existent cultural forms. Yet, a beginning modernization of the genre repertoire took place in the 1930s. Whereas the rudimentary genre repertoire of the 1920s was built up through a plain copying from other domains in society, the latter half of the 1930s saw the introduction of a more advanced genre-generating process whereby new genres were formed through a mixing of two or more existing norms. This article also identifies a number of developmental trends that had their slow start in the 1920s and would mark the evolution of Norwegian radio’s registers and genres ever since.</p></abstract>

This article deals with the formation and first development of the radio genre system in Norway in the interwar years (1925-1940). It is shown that the programmes of the 1920s were mostly imperfect reproductions of existent cultural forms. Yet, a beginning modernization of the genre repertoire took place in the 1930s. Whereas the rudimentary genre repertoire of the 1920s was built up through a plain copying from other domains in society, the latter half of the 1930s saw the introduction of a more advanced genre-generating process whereby new genres were formed through a mixing of two or more existing norms. This article also identifies a number of developmental trends that had their slow start in the 1920s and would mark the evolution of Norwegian radio’s registers and genres ever since.

The Formation of the Genre System on Norwegian Broadcast Radio

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This article deals with the formation and first development of the radio genre system in Norway in the interwar years (1925-1940). It is shown that the...

The Formation of the Genre System on Norwegian Broadcast Radio

Published Online: May 21, 2013

Page range: 119 - 137

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2013-0018

Keywords
early broadcasting history, radio programming in the interwar years, Norwegian radio genres and registers, developmental trends in radio’s meaning patterns, text and genre history

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The Formation of the Genre System on Norwegian Broadcast Radio

Published Online: May 21, 2013

Page range: 119 - 137

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2013-0018

Keywordsearly broadcasting history, radio programming in the interwar years, Norwegian radio genres and registers, developmental trends in radio’s meaning patterns, text and genre history

This content is open access.

Keywords
early broadcasting history, radio programming in the interwar years, Norwegian radio genres and registers, developmental trends in radio’s meaning patterns, text and genre history