Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture

Published by Duke University Press 2003

Communities of the Air

Radio Century, Radio Culture

Edited by: Susan Merrill Squier
With contributions by: Steven Wurtzler , Bruce B. Campbell , Nina Huntemann and Laurence A. Breiner

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822384816

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About this book

Affirms the importance of invention of radio and explores how radio creates sets of overlapping communities of the air, including those who study and theorize radio as a technological, social, cultural, and historical phenomenon.

Author / Editor information

Susan Merrill Squier is Brill Professor of Women’s Studies and English at Pennsylvania State University. She is author of Babies in Bottles: Twentieth-Century Visions of Reproductive Technology and coeditor of Playing Dolly: Technocultural Formations, Fantasies, and Fictions of Assisted Reproduction and Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation.

Reviews

“Communities of the Air covers historical periods, genres, performers, program types, and audiences not previously discussed in this still all too thin area of radio studies.“—Susan Jeanne Douglas, author of Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination

“Turn up the volume! At last, we’re tuned in to the right frequency for radio studies. We all listen to radio, we remember our lives through it—and now we have the tools to understand it too.“—Toby Miller, author of Technologies of Truth: Cultural Citizenship and Popular Media

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Communities of the Air: Introducing the Radio World Susan M. Squier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Radio Technology across the Twentieth Century
AT&T Invents Public Access Broadcasting in 1923: A Foreclosed Model for American Radio Steve Wurtzler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Compromising Technologies: Government, the Radio Hobby, and the Discourse of Catastrophe in the Twentieth Century Bruce Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
A Promise Diminished: The Politics of Low- Power Radio Nina Huntemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
Radio Cultures
Caribbean Voices on the Air: Radio, Poetry, and Nationalism in the Anglophone Caribbean Laurence A. Breiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
The Forgotten Fifteen Million: Black Radio, Radicalism, and the Construction of the ‘‘Negro Market’’ Kathy M. Newman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Packaged Alternatives: The Incorporation and Gendering of ‘‘Alternative’’ Radio Lauren M. E. Goodlad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
Science Literacies: The Mandate and Complicity of Popular Science on the Radio Donald Ulin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
Not Hearing Poetry on Public Radio Martin Spinelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Radio Ideologies
In the Radio Way: Elizabeth II, the Female Voice-Over, and the Radio’s Imperial Effects Adrienne Munich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
If the Country’s Going Gracie, So Can You’’: Gender Representation in Gracie Allen’s Radio Comedy Leah Lowe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
‘‘Are You Lonesome Tonight?’’: Gendered Address in The Lonesome Gal and The Continental Mary Desjardins and Mark Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Wireless Possibilities, Posthuman Possibilities: Brain Radio, Community Radio, Radio Lazarus Susan M. Squier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 336
Illustrations
- Other: 8 illus.

eBook

Published: June 19, 2003
ISBN: 9780822384816