Research Catalog

Title

Radio reader : essays in the cultural history of radio / edited by Michele Hilmes and Jason Loviglio.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hilmes, Michele, 1953-
• Loviglio, Jason.

Description

xv, 569 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Subject

• Radio broadcasting > History

Bibliography (note)

• 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 -- "The 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 -- A 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 -- "The 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.

Call Number

MWGD 02-3375

ISBN

• 0415928206
• 0415928214 (pbk.)

LCCN

2001019230

OCLC

45909194

Title

Radio reader : essays in the cultural history of radio / edited by Michele Hilmes and Jason Loviglio.

Imprint

New York : Routledge, 2002.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hilmes, Michele, 1953-

Loviglio, Jason.

Research Call Number

MWGD 02-3375