The soundscape of the radio: Engineering modern songs and superculture in Nepal

Wired for Sound: Engineering and Technologies in Sonic Cultures

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 224-244

  Grandin, Ingemar ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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