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

Author/creator Porter, Jeffrey Lyn, 1951- author.
Format Book
PublicationChapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Descriptionpages cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2015041084
ISBN9781469627779 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
ISBN1469627779 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
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