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Author Russo, Alexander, 1974-

Title Points on the dial : golden age radio beyond the networks / Alexander Russo.

Imprint Durham, [N.C] : Duke University Press, 2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  384.5443 R921p 2010    ---  Available
Description xi, 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note "An earlier version of chapter 3 first appeared as "Defensive transcriptions: radio networks, sound-on-disc recording, and the meaning of live broadcasting," Velvet Light Trap 54 (Fall 2004): 4/17."--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-255) and index.
Contents The value of a name : defining and redefining national network radio -- "The Lord is my Shepard, I shall not want" : regional networks as sites of community and conflict -- Brought to you via electrical transcription : sound-on-disc recording and the perceptual aesthetics of radio distribution technologies -- On the spot : the spatial and temporal flow of spot broadcasting -- People with money and go : locating attention in the human geography of radio reception.
Subject Radio broadcasting -- United States -- History.
Radio programs -- Social aspects -- United States.
ISBN 9780822345176 (alk. paper)
082234517X (alk. paper)
9780822345329 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822345323 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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