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9780822330837

Communities of the Air

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822330837

  • ISBN10:

    0822330830

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-06-01
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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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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