SERIAL ARTICLES
Coping with war : KGST radio and other media strategies of civilian internees in the Philippines in World War II


Title Details
  • Coping with war :
Subjects
  • Mass media and war -- Philippines
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Mass media and war
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects
  • Radio broadcasting -- Social aspects -- Philippines
  • Coping with war
  • media as coping strategy
  • KGST
  • camp newspapers
  • Little Theater Under the Stars
Online Sources
Keyword
  • Coping with war
  • media as coping strategy
  • KGST
  • camp newspapers
  • Little Theater Under the Stars
Location RHC
Item Call Number P 96 .W352 E57 2010
Status Available
Barcode 18481
International Standard Serial Number
  • International Standard Serial Number - 16551524 (print)
  • International Standard Serial Number - 20120796 (online)
Library Of Congress Call Number
  • Classification number - P 96 .W352
  • Item number - E57 2010
Main Entry
  • Personal name - Enriquez, Elizabeth L.
Title Statement
  • Title - Coping with war :
  • Remainder of title - KGST 'radio' and other media strategies of civilian internees in the Philippines in World War II /
  • Statement of responsibility, etc - Elizabeth L. Enriquez
Summary, Etc.
  • Summary, etc - "The experience of the almost 4,000 internees, mostly American, at the Santo Tomas Internment Camp (University of Santo Tomas campus) shows how the media may help tide people through even the most difficult conditions. Thrown into confinement during the Second World War from January 1942 to February 1945, the internees built a community that struggled to sustain itself through self-government and the management of everyday necessities such as food, health and sanitation and other resources, as well as the performance of normal activities like educating the young and organizing recreational activities. Communication among the internees, the need for which was heightened by the conditions of war and the uncertainty brought about by incarceration, was aided by camp newspapers until paper became scarce in mid-1942. A makeshift radio station soon replaced the newspaper, which the internees fondly called KGST. While not a broadcast station in the technical sense of the word, it served the important function of keeping morale high until the internees were freed towards the end of the war."
Subject Topical Term
  • Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Mass media and war
  • Geographic subdivision - Philippines
  • Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
  • General subdivision - Mass media and war
  • Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
  • General subdivision - Social aspects
  • Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Radio broadcasting
  • General subdivision - Social aspects
  • Geographic subdivision - Philippines
Index Termuncontrolled
  • Uncontrolled term - Coping with war
  • Uncontrolled term - media as coping strategy
  • Uncontrolled term - KGST
  • Uncontrolled term - camp newspapers
  • Uncontrolled term - Little Theater Under the Stars
Host Item Entry
  • Main entry heading - Social Science Diliman
  • Serial Enumeration Chronology (Vol., No.; p.) - vol. 6, no. 2 (December 2010) ; pp. 1-28