Rádio Continental AM: história e narrativas, em Porto Alegre, de 1971 a 1981

Abstract

This research proposes tracing the history of a leading radio-station in Porto Alegre, RS, Radio Continental AM, by analyzing its broadcasting activities in the decade starting in 1971, during which period Radio Continental AM had been particularly active and influential. As far as the research method is concerned, both oral history and new history have been articulated in order to form the corpus and also in order to examine how oral and new history reflected on the daily radio broadcasting of the station. Along these lines, the research studies the problems that the use of interviews in the domain of Social Sciences may raise. The writing of a story based on whatever was broadcast by Radio Continental AM is also a good opportunity for a theory of radio broadcasting to be studied. By developing the historical and social interactions of Radio Continental AM, we have identified what we have called a “radio-broadcasting paideia”. By suggesting that the articulation of radio stations may be seen as analysis plat