""Communities of the Air "covers historical periods, genres, performers, program types, and audiences not previously discussed in this still all too thin area of radio studies."--Susan Jeanne Douglas, author of "Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination"
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix
Communities of the Air: Introducing the Radio World / Susan M. Squier 1
Radio Technology across the Twentieth Century
AT&T Invents Public Access Broadcasting in 1923: A Foreclosed Model for American Radio / Steven Wurtzler 39
Compromising Technologies: Government, the Radio Hobby, and the Discourse of Catastrophe in the Twentieth Century / Bruce Campbell 63
A Promise Diminished: The Politics of Low-Power Radio / Nina Huntemann 76
Radio Cultures
Caribbean Voices on the Air: Radio, Poetry, and Nationalism in the Anglophone Caribbean / Laurence A. Breiner 93
The Forgotten Fifteen Million: Black Radio, Radicalism, and the Construction of the "Negro Market" / Kathy M. Newman 109
Packaged Alternatives: The Incorporation and Gendering of "Alternative" Radio / Lauren M. E. Goodlad 134
Science Literacies: The Mandate and Complicity of Popular Science on the Radio / Donald Ulin 164
Not Hearing Poetry on Public Radio / Martin Spinelli 195
Radio Ideologies
In the Radio Way: Elizabeth II, the Female Voice-Over, and the Radio's Imperial Effects / Adrienne Munich 217
"If the Country's Going Gracie, So Can You": Gender Representation in Gracie Allen's Radio Comedy / Leah Lowe 237
"Are You Lonesome Tonight?": Gendered Address in The Lonesome Gal and The Continental / Mary Desjardins and Mark Williams 251
Wireless Possibilities, Posthuman Possibilities: Brain Radio, Community Radio, Radio Lazarus / Susan M. Squier 275
Contributors 305
Index 307
