Communities of the Air

by Squier, Susan Merrill; Wurtzler, Steven (CON); Campbell, Bruce B. (CON); Huntemann, Nina (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822330837
• ISBN10: 0822330830
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"Turn up the volume! At last, we're tuned in to the right frequency for radio studies. We all listen to radio, we remember our lives through it--and now we have the tools to understand it too."--Toby Miller, author of "Technologies of Truth: Cultural Citizenship and Popular Media"

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Communities of the Air: Introducing the Radio World

Radio Technology across the Twentieth Century

AT&T Invents Public Access Broadcasting in 1923: A Foreclosed Model for American Radio

Compromising Technologies: Government, the Radio Hobby, and the Discourse of Catastrophe in the Twentieth Century

A Promise Diminished: The Politics of Low-Power Radio

Radio Cultures

Caribbean Voices on the Air: Radio, Poetry, and Nationalism in the Anglophone Caribbean

The Forgotten Fifteen Million: Black Radio, Radicalism, and the Construction of the "Negro Market"

Packaged Alternatives: The Incorporation and Gendering of "Alternative" Radio

Science Literacies: The Mandate and Complicity of Popular Science on the Radio

Not Hearing Poetry on Public Radio

Radio Ideologies

In the Radio Way: Elizabeth II, the Female Voice-Over, and the Radio's Imperial Effects

"If the Country's Going Gracie, So Can You": Gender Representation in Gracie Allen's Radio Comedy

"Are You Lonesome Tonight?": Gendered Address in The Lonesome Gal and The Continental

Wireless Possibilities, Posthuman Possibilities: Brain Radio, Community Radio, Radio Lazarus

Contributors

Index

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