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This article explores the presence of Greek modernism and the emergence of mediated innovations towards the communication and reception of literature in the literary broadcasts of Ethnikon Idryma Radiofonias (EIR) (the ‘Hellenic National Radio Foundation’) during the golden age of Greek broadcasting (1945–65). The article attempts a cross-disciplinary study of ‘radio’ and ‘modernism’ by exploring how consumerism, technological progress, mass culture and media radically transformed the production and communication of literature and culture, and by highlighting the importance of materiality and medium-specificity in cultural and historical approaches. Through the emergence of new radiogenic programmes, media experimentations and technical innovations, new cultures of listening, as well as the updating of the criteria pertaining to poetry’s canonization, the article argues for an expansive conception of Greek modernism in the post-war Greek cultural sphere, which includes also cultural, social and technological markers of innovative experimentation in the production, transmission and reception of literature, culture and lived experiences.
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