Lost sound the forgotten art of radio storytelling / Jeff Porter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Porter, Jeffrey Lyn, 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Storytelling in mass media.

Radio and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 283 pages) : illustrations

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Other Title:

Forgotten art of radio storytelling

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume examines the vital interplay between acoustic techniques and modernist practices in the growth of radio. Concentrating on the period from the 1930s to the 1970s, but also speaking to the rising popularity of today's narrative broadcasts, Porter's close readings of key radio programmes show how writers adapted literary techniques to an acoustic medium with great effect. Addressing avant-garde sound poetry and experimental literature on the air, alongside industry policy and network economics, Porter identifies the ways radio challenged the conventional distinctions between highbrow and lowbrow cultural content to produce a dynamic popular culture.

Contents:

Acoustic drift: radio and the literary imagination

Prestige radio: the Columbia workshop and the poetics of sound

Mercury rising: Orson Welles and the master's voice

You are there: Edward R. Murrow and the proximity effect

The screaming woman

The museum of Jurassic radio: sonic excess in Dylan Thomas and Samuel Beckett

Radio as music: Glenn Gould's contrapuntal sound

All things reconsidered: the promise of NPR.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908516-8-0

979-88-908516-9-7

1-4696-2778-7

1-4696-2779-5

OCLC:

944526138