Audio Atmospherics: Listening from Land

This chapter moves from the sea to the shore and to the millions of listeners on land, investigating how they consumed rebel radio broadcasts. Arguing that listening is a practice that shapes and is shaped by relations between bodies and an expanded field of non-human materials, and more-than-human life, the chapter considers how the intimate soundscapes described in Chap. 3 were received, generating atmospheric spaces of listening. These atmospheric listening spaces, it is argued, were affective as listeners became immersed within the politics surrounding the pirate broadcasting phenomenon, namely the ongoing fight for free radio. The chapter demonstrates how a contemporary concern with affective atmospheres can be rethought through the example of rebel radio stations.