Music and the broadcast experience : performance, production, and audiences / edited by Christina L. Baade and James Deaville.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baade, Christina L., editor.

Deaville, James Andrew, 1954- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radio and music.

Television and music.

Music and the Internet.

Physical Description:

xiii, 347 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

Summary:

Music and the Broaocast Experience explores the ways in which music and broadcasting have developed together throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries. It brings into dialogue researchers working in media and music studies; explores and develops crucial points of contact between studies of music in radio and music in television; and investigates the limits, persistence, and extensions of music broadcasting in the Internet era. The book presents a series of case studies that address key moments and concerns in music broadcasting, past and present, written by leading scholars in the field, who hail from both media and music studies. Unified by attentiveness both to musical sound and meaning and to broadcasting structures, practices, audiences, and discourses, chapters address the role of live orchestral concerts and opera in the early development of radio and their relation to ideologies of musical uplift; the relation between production culture, music, and television genre; the function of music in sponsored radio during the 1930s; the fortunes of musical celebrity and artistic ambition on television; questions of music format and political economy in the development of online radio; and the negotiation of space, community, and participation among audiences, online and offline, in the early twenty-first century. As a whole, the book explores the usefulness and limitations of broadcasting as a concept for understanding music and its cultural role, both historically and today. Book jacket.

Contents:

Section I Bringing the Classics Home: Broadcasting Symphonic Concerts and Opera in Early Radio

1 Broadcasting-Concerts: Confronting the Obvious / Jenny Doctor Doctor, Jenny 39

2 The Role of Opera in the Rise of Radio in the United States / Timothy D. Taylor Taylor, Timothy D. 69

Section II Spectacular Sound: Production Cultures in Broadcast Television

3 Spectacular Sound: Classical Music Programming and the Problem of "Visual Interest" in Early US Television / Shown VanCour VanCour, Shown 91

4 The Machine Hums: Music, Special Sound, and the Spaces in Between / Louis Niebur Niebur, Louis 109

5 Musical Theater Meets Reality TV: An Investigation into the Canadian Context / Christine Quail Quail, Christine 129

Section III Raising Dough on Radio: Musical Genre and Advertising in the Swing Era

6 "From Operatic Pomp to a Benny Goodman Stomp!": Frame Analysis and the National Biscuit Company's Let's Dance / Rika Asai Asai, Rika 153

7 Passing Pappy's Biscuits: Dynamics of Uneven Modernization in Regional Radio Voices / Alexander Russo Russo, Alexander 173

Section IV The Power of the Small Screen: Musical Celebrity in Television

8 Toscanini, Ormandy, and the First Televised Orchestra Concert(s): The Networks and the Broadcasting of Musical Celebrity / James Deaville Deaville, James 193

9 John, Yoko, and Mike Douglas: Performing Avant-Garde Art and Radical Politics on American Television in the 1970s / Norma Coates Coates, Norma 213

Section V Music Radio On and Off the Air: Publics, Structures, and Formats

10 Radio Formats in the United States: A (Hyper)Fragmentation of the Imagination / Ron Rodman Rodman, Ron 235

11 Music Radio Goes Online / Tim Wall Wall, Tim 259

Section VI Worlds Apart: Space, Community, and Participation in the Web 2.0 Era

12 New Media, New Festival Worlds: Rethinking Cultural Events and Televisaulity through YouTube and the Tomorrowland Music Festival / Fabian Holt Holt, Fabian 275

13 Worship on the Web: Broadcasting Devotion Through Worship Music Videos on YouTube / Monique M. Ingalls Ingalls, Monique M. 293

14 Incarcerated Music: Broadcasting and the Tactics of Music Listening in Prison / Christina L. Baade Baade, Christina L. 309.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-334) and index.

ISBN:

9780199314713

0199314713

9780199314706

0199314705

OCLC:

930575994