%0 Journal Article %A Bos, Jan %T Holland zingt de nieuwste radioschlagers %D 2021 %J Jaarboek voor Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis, %V 28 %N 1 %P 84-119 %@ 2772-7726 %R https://doi.org/10.5117/JNB2021.005.BOS %K 20th century %K Documentary heritage %K Popular culture %K Radio songs %K Songbooks %I Amsterdam University Press, %X Abstract The rise of the radio in the 1920s resulted in a new type of songbook that included the texts of popular broadcasted songs. They stand in the tradition of cheap popular songbooks from earlier centuries and song broadsides (‘liederencouranten’). Between 1930 and 1970, many hundreds of these radio songbooks were published, sometimes in long series and often with the same or similar titles. The production standards and materials were cheap and simple, although the publishers tried to give them an attractive and ‘typically Dutch’ look. One of the founding publishers of radio songbooks was Frans Rombouts from Roosendaal, a market vendor by origin. The biggest producer was the firm W.H. de Koning & Sons (also: Deko) in Rotterdam. The radio songbooks are a particular phenomenon of popular culture and a type of documentary heritage that deserves more attention from book and music historians and heritage institutions. %U https://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/10.5117/JNB2021.005.BOS