Music, Radio and the Public Sphere [electronic resource] : The Aesthetics of Democracy /
Fairchild, Charles.author.
Radio, the most widely used medium in the world, is a dominant mediator of musical meaning. Through a combination of critical analysis, interdisciplinary theory and ethnographic writing about community radio, this book provides a novel theorization of democratic aesthetics, with important implications for the study of old and new media alike.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Enforcing and evading rationalization -- pt. 2. Making radio, making meaning.
Radio, the most widely used medium in the world, is a dominant mediator of musical meaning. Through a combination of critical analysis, interdisciplinary theory and ethnographic writing about community radio, this book provides a novel theorization of democratic aesthetics, with important implications for the study of old and new media alike.
Political science.
Music.
Communication.
Motion pictures—History.
Democracy.
Aesthetics.
Political Science.
Music.
Media Studies.
Film History.
Democracy.
Aesthetics.