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Editorial Reviews
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The contributors to this volume persuasively argue that the radio has been at the center of the American imaginative and political life in the twentieth century.an important and entertaining book by two leading scholars. -- Lary May, author of The Big Tomorrow, Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way
From music to mysteries, call-ins to comedy, advertising to advocacy, and religion to racial uplift, it's all here in Radio Reader. -- George Lipsitz, author of Time Passages
Radio had been ubiquitous in American life since the late 1920s. With this seminal book, we may now begin to understand what this has meant to our civilization. Bravo! -- J. Fred MacDonald, Professor Emeritus, Northeastern Illinois University
Long marginalized in American media historiography, radio finally receives fitting scholarly treatment. Radio Reader should be required reading for any serious student of media history. -- Robert C. Allen, Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Radio Reader re-invents the radio as an object of study by letting us hear disembodied and contradictory voices from the past. An indispensable collection! -- Janet Staiger, William P. Hobby Centennial Professor of Communication, University of Texas at Austin.
Long marginalized in American media historiography, radio finally receives fitting scholarly treatment. Radio Reader should be required reading for any serious student of media history. -- Robert C. Allen, Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Radio Reader re-invents the radio as an object of study by letting us hear disembodied and contradictory voices from the past. An indispensable collection! -- Janet Staiger, William P. Hobby Centennial Professor of Communication, University of Texas at Austin.
Radio Reader is a powerful report on the powerful history of a powerful medium. It weaves tales of everyday life with stories about the transformation radio has gone through. It is captivatingly told, and ;eaves the reader not only with a wistful longing for the early period of radio, but also a wish to do research on the subject oneself. That is how strong this book is. -- Oystein Hide, University of Southampton,Techné
The Radio Reader offers a broad, interdisciplinary perspective on radio broadcasting in the 20th century. -- Elizabeth Hayes, University of Iowa, Journal of Communication
Product Description
While cultural historians and media scholars have been looking at television for decades, they have only recently turned their eyes (and ears) to radio. Studies of television rarely acknowledge that many of its forms-soap operas, situation comedies, quiz shows, sportscasts, etc.-all evolved out of the earlier medium. The essays collected here demonstrate that radio set patterns that have effected all forms of media that have followed it, and also look at how it has survived the coming of media that supposedly made it obsolete.
Radio Reader investigates compelling topics like gender in postwar suspense dramas, racial representation and The Green Hornet, American radio propagandists for the Axis Powers, and the history of National Public Radio. This exciting volume not only provides a survey of the best work being done in an emerging field, it also points to new ways of thinking about cultural history and media studies. Radio Reader is sure tobecome a classic work in the history of popular culture and mass media.
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The contributors to this volume persuasively argue that the radio has been at the center of the American imaginative and political life in the twentieth century.an important and entertaining book by two leading scholars. -- Lary May, author of The Big Tomorrow, Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way
From music to mysteries, call-ins to comedy, advertising to advocacy, and religion to racial uplift, it's all here in Radio Reader. -- George Lipsitz, author of Time Passages
Radio had been ubiquitous in American life since the late 1920s. With this seminal book, we may now begin to understand what this has meant to our civilization. Bravo! -- J. Fred MacDonald, Professor Emeritus, Northeastern Illinois University
Long marginalized in American media historiography, radio finally receives fitting scholarly treatment. Radio Reader should be required reading for any serious student of media history. -- Robert C. Allen, Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Radio Reader re-invents the radio as an object of study by letting us hear disembodied and contradictory voices from the past. An indispensable collection! -- Janet Staiger, William P. Hobby Centennial Professor of Communication, University of Texas at Austin.
Long marginalized in American media historiography, radio finally receives fitting scholarly treatment. Radio Reader should be required reading for any serious student of media history. -- Robert C. Allen, Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Radio Reader re-invents the radio as an object of study by letting us hear disembodied and contradictory voices from the past. An indispensable collection! -- Janet Staiger, William P. Hobby Centennial Professor of Communication, University of Texas at Austin.
Radio Reader is a powerful report on the powerful history of a powerful medium. It weaves tales of everyday life with stories about the transformation radio has gone through. It is captivatingly told, and ;eaves the reader not only with a wistful longing for the early period of radio, but also a wish to do research on the subject oneself. That is how strong this book is. -- Oystein Hide, University of Southampton,Techné
The Radio Reader offers a broad, interdisciplinary perspective on radio broadcasting in the 20th century. -- Elizabeth Hayes, University of Iowa, Journal of Communication
Product Description
While cultural historians and media scholars have been looking at television for decades, they have only recently turned their eyes (and ears) to radio. Studies of television rarely acknowledge that many of its forms-soap operas, situation comedies, quiz shows, sportscasts, etc.-all evolved out of the earlier medium. The essays collected here demonstrate that radio set patterns that have effected all forms of media that have followed it, and also look at how it has survived the coming of media that supposedly made it obsolete.
Radio Reader investigates compelling topics like gender in postwar suspense dramas, racial representation and The Green Hornet, American radio propagandists for the Axis Powers, and the history of National Public Radio. This exciting volume not only provides a survey of the best work being done in an emerging field, it also points to new ways of thinking about cultural history and media studies. Radio Reader is sure tobecome a classic work in the history of popular culture and mass media.
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