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Radio Reader Essays in the Cultural History of Radio

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ISBN-10: 0415928214

ISBN-13: 9780415928212

Edition: 2002

Authors: Michele Hilmes, Jason Loviglio

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Radio is currently a hot topic since radio was the medium that defined and defied American culture in the early 20th century. These essays reveal how radio set patterns for all forms of media that followed it.
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Book details

List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/19/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 586
Size: 6.75" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.640
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Rethinking Radio
Radio in the Great Depression: Promotional Culture, Public Service, and Propaganda
Critical Reception: Public Intellectuals Decry Depression-Era Radio, Mass Culture, and Modern America
"Your Voice Came in Last Night ... But I Thought It Sounded A Little Scared": Rural Radio Listening and "Talking Back" During the Progressive Era in Wisconsin, 1920-1932
Vox Pop: Network Radio and the Voice of the People
Man of the Hour: Walter A. Maier and Religion by Radio on the Lutheran Hour
"The Tendency to Deprave and Corrupt Morals": Regulation and Irregular Sexuality in Golden Age Radio Comedy
Poisons, Potions, and Profits: Radio Rebels and the Origins of the Consumer Movement
Scary Women and Scarred Men: Suspense, Gender Trouble, and Postwar Change, 1942-1950
Radio's "Cultural Front," 1938-1948
Radio and the Political Discourse of Racial Equality
A Dark(ened) Figure on the Airwaves: Race, Nation, and the Green Hornet
Expatriate American Radio Propagandists in the Employ of the Axis Powers
Now it Can be Told: The Influence of the United States Occupation on Japanese Radio
Before the Scandals: The Radio Precedents of the Quiz Show Genre
"The Case of the Radio-Active Housewife": Relocating Radio in the Age of Television
Radio Redefines Itself, 1947-1962
Turn on ... Tune in: The Rise and Demise of Commercial Underground Radio
Lead us not into Temptation: American Public Radio in a World of Infinite Possibilities
Radio by and for the Public: The Death and Resurrection of Low-Power Radio
Technostruggles: Black Liberation Radio
Scanning the "Stations of the Cross": Christian Right Radio in Post-Fordist Society
Letting the Boys be Boys: Talk Radio, Male Hysteria, and Political Discourse in the 1980s
Radio's Digital Future: Preserving the Public Interest in the Age of New Media
Notes on Contributors
Index