The Louis J. Boeri and Minín Bujones Boeri Collection of Cuban-American Radionovelas, 1963-1970

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Desde su oficina y estudios en el quinto piso del "The Freedom Tower" en Miami, el empresario italoamericano Louis J. Boeri y su compañía, America's Productions, Inc. (API), formaron un imperio de programación de radio, vendiendo sus programas al gobierno estadounidense, a más de 200 emisoras de radio por toda América Latina y España, y a las emisoras de radio de habla hispana en los Estados Unidos durante la segunda mitad de los años sesenta. Con guiones escritos por aclamados guionistas cubanos exiliados y escritores mexicanos, America's Productions, Inc. producía dos tipos de programas: el primero de contenido político y el segundo, de carácter más general, se distinguía como "puro entretenimiento." Diseñado para un público latinoamericano y latino residente en EE.UU., el entretenimiento puro incluía radionovelas/dramas, comedias, programas de consejos y autoayuda, dramas bíblicos, misterios, historias de espías, y espectáculos de variedades.

La Colección de Radionovelas Cubanoamericanas Louis J. Boeri y Minín Bujones Boeri, 1963-1970, ofrece una selección de títulos de la programación de la API, contenidos en la colección del mismo nombre resguardada en la Biblioteca Latinoamericana. La gran mayoría de estos títulos pertenece al género de la radionovela. En 2016, la Biblioteca Latinoamericana recibió fondos del Proyecto de Recursos para la Investigación de América Latina (LARRP, acrónimo en inglés), que es parte de las iniciativas de los Recursos Mundiales del Centro para Bibliotecas Académicas (CRL, acrónimo en inglés), para un proyecto piloto de digitalizar ocho títulos de las audio grabaciones producidas por API para su programación de entretenimiento. Las grabaciones digitalizadas provienen de las cintas de audio maestras creadas por la API para su biblioteca de programas de entretenimiento. Cada título con sus episodios constitutivos se encuentra disponible en formato de audio digital por primera vez desde su primera transmisión a finales de la década de 1960. Junto con las grabaciones de radionovelas, la colección digital incluye imágenes de algunos de los materiales promocionales de la API que describen el proceso de creación de un programa de radionovela así como breves reseñas, publicaciones efímeras y fotografías de actores, actrices, escritores y personal de producción de la API.

La versión digital de la Colección Louis J. Boeri y Minín Bujones Boeri de radionovelas cubanoamericanas ofrece un recurso único para el estudio de la historia de los nexos políticos, culturales y comerciales entre Estados Unidos y Cuba a través de la radiodifusión pública durante de un momento crítico del siglo XX. La colección ofrece nuevas perspectivas e ideas sobre el uso de los medios de comunicación como propaganda política y cultural con respecto a Cuba por parte de Estados Unidos durante la Guerra Fría, así como la historia de la cultura popular y los medios de comunicación a partir de la Revolución Cubana de 1959 entre el público hispanohablante en los Estados Unidos así como en los demás países donde se exportaban estos programas.

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From his office and studios on the fifth floor of “The Freedom Tower” in Miami, Italian-American Louis J. Boeri and his company, America's Productions, Inc. (API), formed a radio programming empire, selling their products to the United States government, to 200 radio stations in Latin America and Spain, and to Spanish-language radio stations in the United States during the latter half of the 1960s. With scripts penned by acclaimed Cuban scriptwriters in exile and Mexican writers as well, America’s Productions, Inc. produced two types of entertainment radio programming: one kind featuring political content, and a second kind, generally characterized as ‘pure entertainment.’ The entertainment programming was designed for both U.S. Latino and Latin American audiences and the content included radionovelas/dramas, comedies, advice programs, biblical dramas, mysteries, spy stories, and variety shows.

The Louis J. Boeri and Minín Bujones Boeri Collection of Cuban-American Radionovelas, 1963-1970 provides a selection of titles from API’s unique entertainment catalog contained in the collection of the same name held by the Latin American Library, the vast majority of which falls within the radionovela genre. In 2016, the Latin American Research Resources Project (LARRP), part of the Global Resources initiatives of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), generously funded a pilot project to digitize eight titles from the extant master audio recordings created by API for its entertainment library. Each title with its constituent episodes will now be available in digital audio format for the first time since they originally aired in the late 1960s. Along with the radionovelas recordings themselves, the collection includes images of some of API’s promotional materials that describe the process of creating a radionovela program and brief storyline descriptions, ephemera, and photographs of the actors, actresses, writers, and production staff of API.

The digital version of the Louis J. Boeri and Minín Bujones Boeri Collection of Cuban-American Radionovelas affords a rare resource for the study of the history of the political, cultural, and commercial ties between the United States and Cuba via public broadcasting during a pivotal moment in the 2oth century. The collection offers new perspectives and insights into the use of media as political and cultural propaganda by Cuba and the United States during the Cold War era, as well as the history of popular culture and mass media in the wake of the 1959 Cuban Revolution among Spanish-speaking audiences in the United States and the Spanish-speaking countries to which the programs were exported.

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