Radio reader : essays in the cultural history of radio / edited by Michele Hilmes and Jason Loviglio.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hilmes, Michele, 1953-

Loviglio, Jason.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radio broadcasting--History.

Radio broadcasting.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 569 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2002.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Rethinking Radio / Michele Hilmes 1

Chapter 2 Radio in the Great Depression: Promotional Culture, Public Service, and Propaganda / Kate Lacey 21

Chapter 3 Critical Reception: Public Intellectuals Decry Depression-Era Radio, Mass Culture, and Modern America / Bruce Lenthall 41

Chapter 4 "Your Voice Came in Last Night ... But I Thought It Sounded A Little Scared": Rural Radio Listening and "Talking Back" During the Progressive Era in Wisconsin, 1920-1932 / Derek Vaillant 63

Chapter 5 Vox Pop: Network Radio and the Voice of the People / Jason Loviglio 89

Chapter 6 Man of the Hour: Walter A. Maier and Religion by Radio on the Lutheran Hour / Tona Hangen 113

Chapter 7 "The Tendency to Deprave and Corrupt Morals": Regulation and Irregular Sexuality in Golden Age Radio Comedy / Matthew Murray 135

Chapter 8 Poisons, Potions, and Profits: Radio Rebels and the Origins of the Consumer Movement / Kathy M. Newman 157

Chapter 9 Scary Women and Scarred Men: Suspense, Gender Trouble, and Postwar Change, 1942-1950 / Allison McCracken 183

Chapter 10 Radio's "Cultural Front," 1938-1948 / Judith E. Smith 209

Chapter 11 Radio and the Political Discourse of Racial Equality / Barbara Savage 231

Chapter 12 A Dark(ened) Figure on the Airwaves: Race, Nation, and the Green Hornet / Alexander Russo 257

Chapter 13 Expatriate American Radio Propagandists in the Employ of the Axis Powers / William F. O'Connor 277

Chapter 14 Now it Can be Told: The Influence of the United States Occupation on Japanese Radio / Susan Smulyan 301

Chapter 15 Before the Scandals: The Radio Precedents of the Quiz Show Genre / Jason Mittell 319

Chapter 16 "The Case of the Radio-Active Housewife": Relocating Radio in the Age of Television / Jennifer Hyland Wang 343

Chapter 17 Radio Redefines Itself, 1947-1962 / Eric Rothenbuhler, Tom McCourt 367

Chapter 18 Turn on ... Tune in: The Rise and Demise of Commercial Underground Radio / Michael C. Keith 389

Chapter 19 Lead us not into Temptation: American Public Radio in a World of Infinite Possibilities / Jack Mitchell 405

Chapter 20 Radio by and for the Public: The Death and Resurrection of Low-Power Radio / Paul Riismandel 423

Chapter 21 Technostruggles: Black Liberation Radio / John Fiske 451

Chapter 22 Scanning the "Stations of the Cross": Christian Right Radio in Post-Fordist Society / Paul Apostolidis 461

Chapter 23 Letting the Boys be Boys: Talk Radio, Male Hysteria, and Political Discourse in the 1980s / Susan J. Douglas 485

Chapter 24 Radio's Digital Future: Preserving the Public Interest in the Age of New Media / Michael P. McCauley 505.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415928206

0415928214

OCLC:

45909194