Vintage frequencies: Goa’s colonial radio tales

Abstract

This presentation offers an analysis of the seven Bulletins of Emissora de Goa, published between 1952 and 1953, and seeks to understand how Emissora de Goa, through a written support, positioned itself as a focal point of the Portuguese-speaking circuits. Additionally, it explores the possibility of restoring the sound archive when the sound dimension is restricted to an exercise of imagination stimulated by written records or by contemporary analysis of the traces left by the colonial dynamics and policies of the past. As an example of this perspective, the presentation examines how the musical policies of the Estado Novo, articulated through Emissora de Goa, fostered a musical scene that still resonates in Goa today. This resonance keeps alive, even six decades after Goa’s liberation from Portuguese colonization, the legacy of the label through which Emissora de Goa identified itself as “The Voice of Goa: A Portuguese Presence on the Asian Continent”.