Communities of the air : radio century, radio culture / edited by Susan M. Squier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Squier, Susan Merrill.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radio broadcasting--Social aspects.

Radio broadcasting.

Physical Description:

viii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, [2003]

Contents:

Communities of the air: introducing the radio world / Susan M. Squier

AT&T invents public access broadcasting in 1923: a foreclosed model for American radio / Steven Wurtzler

Compromising technologies: government, the radio hobby, and the discourse of catastrophe in the twentieth century / Bruce Campbell

A promise diminished: the politics of low-power radio / Nina Huntemann

Caribbean voices on the air: radio, poetry, and nationalism in the Anglophone Caribbean / Laurence A. Breiner

The forgotten fifteen million: black radio, radicalism, and the construction of the "Negro market" / Kathy M. Newman

Packaged alternatives: the incorporation and gendering of "alternative" radio / Lauren M.E. Goodlad

Science literacies: the mandate and complicity of popular science on the radio / Donald Ulin

Not hearing poetry on public radio / Martin Spinelli

In the radio way: Elizabeth II, the female voice-over, and the radio's imperial effects / Adrienne Munich

"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 / Mary Desjardins and Mark Williams

Wireless possibilities, posthuman possibilities: brain radio, community radio, radio Lazarus / Susan M. Squier.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0822330830

0822330954

OCLC:

50738146