Communities of the air : radio century, radio culture / edited by Susan M. Squier.

Other author Squier, Susan Merrill.
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham, NC : Duke University Press, ©2003.
Descriptionviii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Radio broadcasting--Social aspects.

Contents Communities of the air: introducing the radio world / Susan M. Squier -- 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 -- A promise diminished: the politics of low-power radio / Nina Huntemann -- Caribbean voices on the air: radio, poetry, and nationalism in the Anglophone Caribbean / Laurence A. Breiner -- The 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 -- 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 -- "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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2002151217
ISBN0822330830 (alk. paper)
ISBN0822330954 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN1991.6 .C66 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold