| Description |
xv, 569 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Rethinking radio / Michele Hilmes -- Radio in the Great Depression : promotional culture, public service, and propaganda / Kate Lacey -- Critical reception : public intellectuals decry Depression-Era radio, mass culture, and modern America / Bruce Lenthall -- "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 / Derek Vaillant -- Vox pop : network radio and the voice of the people / Jason Loviglio -- Man of the hour : Walter A. Maier and religion by radio on the Lutheran Hour / Tona Hangen -- "Tendency to deprave and corrupt morals" : regulation and irregular sexuality in golden age radio comedy / Matthew Murray -- Poisons, potions, and profits : radio rebels and the origins of the consumer movement / Kathy M. Newman -- Scary women and scarred men : suspense, gender trouble, and postwar change, 1942-1950 / Allison McCracken -- Radio's "Cultural front," 1938-1948 / Judith E. Smith -- Radio and the political discourse of racial equality / Barbara Savage -- Dark(ened) figure on the airwaves : race, nation, and the Green Hornet / Alexander Russo -- Expatriate American radio propagandists in the employ of the Axis powers / William F. O'Connor -- Now it can be told : the influence of the United States occupation on Japanese radio / Susan Smulyan -- Before the scandals : the radio precedents of the quiz show genre / Jason Mittell -- "Case of the radio-active housewife" : relocating radio in the age of television / Jennifer Hyland Wang -- Radio redefines it self, 1947-1962 / Eric Rothenbuhler and Tom McCourt -- Turn on ... tune in : the rise and demise of commercial underground radio / Jack Mitchell -- Radio by and for the public : the death and resurrection of low-power radio / Paul Riismandel -- Technostruggles : black liberation radio / John Fiske -- Scanning the "Stations of the cross" : Christian right radio in post-Fordist society / Paul Apostolidis -- Letting the boys be boys : talk radio, male hysteria, and political discourse in the 1980s / Susan J. Douglas -- Radio's digital future : preserving the public interest in the age of new media / Michael P. McCauley. |
| Subject |
Radio broadcasting -- History.
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| Added Author |
Hilmes, Michele, 1953-
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Loviglio, Jason.
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| ISBN |
0415928206 |
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0415928214 (pbk.) |
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