Radio cultures
Subtitle: the sound medium in American life
By: edited by Michael C. Keith.
Contributors: Keith, Michael C., 1945-
Publisher: P. Lang; Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780820486482; 9780820488653
Subjects: Radio broadcasting -- United States; Radio broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States
Description: "Radio Cultures examines the manifold ways in which radio has influenced the nation's social and cultural environment since its inception nearly a century ago. Written by leading scholars in the field, chapters address a wide range of topics, including how this powerful medium has impacted and affected non-mainstream segments of the population throughout its history and how these repressed and neglected groups have employed radio to counter and overcome discrimination and bias. The use of the audio medium for political, economic, and religious purposes is comprehensively probed and analyzed in this insightful and innovative volume."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Radio's covenant / Susan Brinson; title: Speaking in our tongues / Donald Browne; title: Heard it on the X / Roberto Avant Mier; title: Sounds from the rez / Bruce Smith; title: Speaking for themselves / Donna Halper; title: The howl that could not be silenced / Phylis Johnson; title: Underground radio / Larry Miller; title: Speaking of God, listening for grace / Tona Hangen; title: Broadcasting unionism / Elizabeth Fones-Wolf; title: The public's radio / Corey Flintoff; title: Indecency and radio programming, 1927 to 2000 / Louise Benjamin; title: Band of hate / Robert L. Hilliard; title: Talk nation / Peter Laufer; title: Political waves / Douglas Craig; title: Community renegades / Lawrence C. Soley; title: Librarians of the airwaves / Cindy Welsh; title: Radio studies in the classroom / Barbara Calabrese; title: Writing about radio / Michael C. Keith; title: Slow fade? seeking radio's future / Christopher H. Sterling.