The sociability in sonorous waves: the audience and the radio of years 50 and 60 in Fortaleza

Abstract

The present study reflects on the meanings of the sociabilities mediated for the radio from two distinct perspectives: of the producers of the radio in the fifties and sixty of century XX and of its listeners in the same period, in the city of Fortaleza, located in the Northeast region of Brazil. This period of time presents itself as extremely rich concerning the sociabilities mediated for the radio due to the radical changes which took place during the passing from a historical period to another one, marked for the eclosion of the regimen of exception in the Country. We selected for this study, twenty producers and receivers of those decades, today between 60 and 80 years of age. The main question that moves this study is, therefore, how the radio could function as a means constructor of new sociabilities for these historical citizens situate in distincted social topographies. Keywords: Radio. Sociabilities. Audience.