Radio's America : the Great Depression and the rise of modern mass culture / Bruce Lenthall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lenthall, Bruce.

Contributor:

ebrary, Inc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radio broadcasting--United States--History.

Radio broadcasting.

Radio broadcasting--Social aspects.

United States.

History.

Radio broadcasting--Social aspects--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 261 pages)

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction: "The story of the century"

1. Radio's challenges: public intellectuals and the problem of mass culture. William Orton and the mass-consumption critique ; James Rorty and the mass-production critique ; African American intellectuals and the mass-production critique in action ; Related solutions ; Defenders of the faith

2. Radio's listeners: personalizing mass culture. The mass audience listens ; Consumer bargaining ; "When you can't find a friend, you've still got the radio"

3. Radio's democracy: the politics of the fireside. Roosevelt on the radio ; Radio democracy: the politics of intimacy ; Radio democracy: the politics of information ; Once and future ideals?

4. Radio's champions: strange gods? Radio stars ; Voices of the people ; Power ... corrupts? ; Limited amplitude

5. Radio's students: media studies and the possibilities of mass communication. Paul Lazarsfeld and social pragmatism's hope ; Herman Hettinger and commercial pragmatism's faith ; Theodor Adorno's critical theory: a considerably less charitable view

6. Radio's writers: a public voice in the modern world. Art of the air ; Public speech, public art, and mass communication ; Modernism on the air ; Muffled voices.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-253) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

Print version: Radio's America.

ISBN:

9780226471938

0226471934

Publisher Number:

99944019348

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.