RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

RADIO

Đorđije Popovič

RADIO’S ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CULTURE AND CREATIVE EXPRESSION OF THE NATIONS AND NATIONALITIES OF YUGOSLAVIA

Апу all-embracing and reliable conclusion about what radio can and what it actually does do in the development of and cooperation among the cultures and creative expression of Yugoslavia’s nations and nationalities can only be the product of joint detailed research and discussion. Discussions of such topics in the scientific and technical literature seem for years now to have unjustifiably negiected the fact that central radio stations аге Yugoslavia’s most developed cultural institutions, from the standpoints of the quantity and variety of cultural material they present, of the professional structure and number of cultural and creative workers they engage, of their dissemination possibilities, and of the complexity of their influence on the person’s intellectual and overall activity. An essential characteristic of the central radio stations as cultural institutions is that they exert their influence, cultural included, in nationally-complex milieu in which all the nations and nationalities have the rights, guaranteed by the Constitution of Yugoslavia and the constitutions of the republics and provinces, to free development, to express-their linguistic characteristics, and to develop their own cultures and creative expression. The central radio stations, then, are the cultural institutions of all the nations and nationalities in

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