| Description |
viii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Communities of the air: introducing the radio world / Susan M. Squier -- Radio technology across the twentieth century: -- 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 -- Promise diminished: the politics of low-power radio / Nina Huntemann -- Radio cultures: -- Caribbean voices on the air: radio, poetry, and nationalism in the Anglophone Caribbean / Laurence A. Breiner -- 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 -- Radio ideologies: -- 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 / Leah Lowe -- "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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Radio broadcasting -- Social aspects.
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Radio broadcasting -- Social aspects. |
| Added Author |
Squier, Susan Merrill.
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| ISBN |
0822330954 paperback alkaline paper |
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0822330830 alkaline paper |
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