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Under the Popular Unity government, several key companies were nationalized for the benefit of the people. And many of those, like the famous Quimantú publishing house, were cultural in nature. The idea there was that books would no longer be an object of elite consumption. The same was the case with the IRT: records could be enjoyed in working-class homes without the connotation of being music connoisseurs or wealthy collectors.
✏️ The socialist experiment process of considering how culture should be nationalized for the sake of ensuring its provided to all the people. 🔗 View Highlight
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Before that, most records were imported, and the price tag of most records put them out of the reach of popular consumers. The idea was to create a national record industry for domestic consumption. National record production was also vital to the Popular Unity project of nationalizing radio stations, which had been previously dominated by English-language music.