Catching up… the new publication edition

As I am slowly getting new research underway, I am also pleased to announce that the fruits of older labour are now also coming out.

Europop…

This month has seen the publication of a new article in a special issue of the European Review of History  edited by Klaus Nathaus devoted to the circulation of popular culture in Europe.  This article first saw the light as part of a workshop of the same name at the inimitable Villa Vigoni on the shores of Lake Como, where we discussed everything from fashion to tourism to food and drink.  My kind of conference!

The new article is:

“In what language do you like to sing best? Placing popular music in broadcasting in post-war Europe” European Review of History 20(5) (2013) pp. 837 – 857 (clink on the link for full text).

Abstract

I had the pleasure of presenting some of this work at the recent Cité des Télécoms Summer School in Pleumeur-Bodou as well.

…and coming home

Alexander Badenoch and  Hans-Ulrich Wagner: “Coming home into thin air? Radio and the socio-cultural geography of homecoming in Germany 1945-1955″ in Sharif Gemie,  G. Scott Soo with Norry Laporte (eds) Coming Home?  Vol. 1: Conflict and Return Migration in the Aftermath of Europe’s Twentieth-Century Civil Wars (Cambridge Scholars Press 2013) pp. 145-163.

This piece represented a sort of ‘homecoming’ for me as well: it was originally presented at a conference at the University of Southampton in 2009, in the department of modern languages, where I did my PhD, a bit as an excuse to work together with my friend and Studienkreis colleague Hans-Ulrich Wagner of the University of Hamburg (another ‘home’ of mine).   As such, the conference raised both many interesting intellectual and personal issues around migration.