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Radio Reader: Essays in the Cultural History of Radio
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by Michele Hilmes
Sales Rank: 720697
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Cover Type: Paperback with 448 pages
Published by: RoutledgeEdition: 1st Edition October 19, 2001
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0415928214
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0415928212
Book Dimensions:
9.7 x 7.4 x 1.4 inches
Weighs: 2.7 pounds
Product Review
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 Review
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
Reader Reviews
Okay, well if you have read Susan J. Douglas' book "Tuning in" or "Inventing American B'casting." Or Hines' "Radio Voices" or Smulyans' "Selling Radio" -- you'll know exactly where this book comes from (this book is like an extension of these books - only up to modern day). I am very pleased that we are seeing more published books on radio in the academy, however, the majority of these are coming from the cultural studies perspective -- I guess because any quantitative study is thought to be largely the purveyance of the industry. So, it's a qualitative romp through the garden of radio past and the impact the medium has had on the American Psyche that perhaps we have overlooked due to our (new?) obsession with television. It's a step above the general "I recall when radio was great..." books due to the caliber of essayists in the thing. WHile it's not extremely original, the writing is superb and offers some more insights into the medium of radio. It benefits too from the fact that these essays are not overly written about (and published) in the academy. So, in other words, there is certainly more than enough room for it in the literature.
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