Radio / podcasts Books
Headline Publishing Group What Makes Us Human
Book SynopsisA dazzling insight into what gives meaning to our life and to us as a species.What makes us human? From Carlo Rovelli on the particles of dust that make us, to Caitlin Moran on the joy of Friday nights, and A C Grayling on how we express ourselves through culture: this illuminating book shares 130 mind-expanding answers to that question.We all want to understand our place in the universe and find a sense of purpose in the life. This book will help the reader navigate that journey with the help of leading names from the worlds of literature, history, philosophy, politics, sport, comedy and popular culture.Originally broadcast as a popular feature on the Jeremy Vine Show, What Makes Us Human? includes short essays from: Andrew Marr, Carlo Rovelli, Marian Keyes, Alain de Botton, Robert Webb, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Fry, and many more.
£14.24
John Murray Press Get Started in Film Making
Book SynopsisThis is the go-to book for anyone wanting to unleash their creativity and start making films.Table of Contents : Introduction : 01 Getting ready : 02 Script writing : 03 Casting and rehearsals : 04 Cameras : 05 Using your camera : 06 Lights and lighting : 07 Sound : 08 Locations and obtaining support : 09 Financing your film : 10 Fine tuning your vision : 11 Silence on set ... and action : 12 Completing the moving jigsaw : 13 Showing your film : 14 Confessions of a film maker : Glossary : Taking it further : Index
£14.24
Edinburgh University Press Writing the Radio War
Book SynopsisWriting the Radio War 'merges the fields of sound studies, radio studies, and Second World War literary studies through considerations of both major and marginalized figures of wartime broadcasting.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Sounding Modernism
Book SynopsisThis individual studies ask what specific sonorous qualities are capable of being registered by different modern media, and how sonic transpositions and transferences across media affect the ways in which human subjects attend to modern soundscapes.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Writing the Radio War
Book SynopsisWriting the Radio War merges the fields of sound studies, radio studies, and Second World War literary studies through considerations of both major and marginalized figures of wartime broadcasting.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Early Radio
Book SynopsisThe first anthology to explore early radioTrade Review"The publication of this anthology is a pivotal event in the field of radio studies. With its sound historical grounding, canny selection of archival texts, superb editorial apparatus, and intellectually crisp introduction, Early Radio sets the standard against which other such collections will be measured. The scholarship in the volume is of the highest order." -Damien Keane, State University of New York at Buffalo
£90.25
Orion Publishing Co Your Call
Book SynopsisLooking beyond the polls and the experts, Radio 2's Jeremy Vine explores the opinions of the nation. Published in hardback as What I Learnt.Trade ReviewThis book is full of glorious examples of caller wisdom. There are laugh-out-loud anecdotes, like the one about the newsreader who said Albert Speer was in Spandau Ballet, instead of Spandau prison -- Alison Pearson * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *Vine is an entertaining raconteur and his fans will find much to enjoy * DAILY EXPRESS *
£9.99
Globe Pequot Press The Jive 95
Book SynopsisKSAN!: The Hippie Radio Revolution that Rocked America is an oral history of America's first hippie underground FM station which broadcasted the countercultural consciousness of the 60s and 70s to a new generation. A communal radio band of intrepid hellraisers, pranksters, and drug-enlightened geniuses defined this psychedelic era, from the Summer of Love in Golden Gate Park, to the rebellion and bitter end of the late 1970s, which launched the Reagan Revolution.Founded in San Francisco by Tom Donahue, a 1996 inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, an entire generation of Americans discovered a new musical universe among dance clubs, light shows and street feststhe original pop-ups. Almost overnight, KSAN became an audio clubhouse, where anyone could belong with friends and the cool cats and hipsters they just met.Rock gods, political stars, and literary celebrities, including Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, Sly Stone, and John Lennon were all interviewed by founder Tom D
£22.50
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Podcasting in a Platform Age
Book SynopsisPodcasting in a Platform Age explores the transition underway in podcasting by considering how the influx of legacy and new media interest in the medium is injecting professional and corporate logics into what had been largely an amateur media form. Many of the most high-profile podcasts today, however, are produced by highly-skilled media professionals, some of whom are employees of media corporations. Legacy radio and new media platform giants like Google, Apple, Amazon, and Spotify are also making big (and expensive) moves in the medium by acquiring content producers and hosting platforms. This book focuses on three major aspects of this transformation: formalization, professionalization, and monetization. Through a close read of online and press discourse, analysis of podcasts themselves, participant observations at podcast trade shows and conventions, and interviews with industry professionals and individual podcasters, John Sullivan outlines how th
£21.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Podcast or Perish
Book SynopsisLori Beckstead is a podcaster and Associate Professor in the RTA School of Media at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada, who loves dad jokes, footnotes, and bandying about the word neoliberalism'.Ian M. Cook is an anthropologist from a magical place where giant gingers are produced. He works for OLIve - the Open Learning Initiative in Hungary, which provides adult education for people who have experienced displacement.Hannah McGregor is a podcaster, writer, and Associate Professor of Publishing at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She always has an automated email reply on, even when she's not on holiday.
£24.13
Upfront Publishing The Lovejoy Trail
Book SynopsisA comprehensive list of many of the locations used in the TV series 'Lovejoy'. Locations in Suffolk, Norfolk, Hertfordshire and Essex.
£20.89
Eye Books Good Morning Afghanistan: The Crusade of Words
Book SynopsisWhen Waseem Mahmood's brother broke a confidence and filed a story in the world's highest circulating tabloid, the News of the World, Mahmood feared he'd never work in broadcast media again. History intervened with the events of 9/11, the attack on Afghanistan, and the Taliban's fall. Headed by Mahmood, a group of journalists responded by producing a Kabul-based radio program to disseminate much-needed and, for the first time, uncensored information. What they end up providing is hope for a devastated land and a voice for a people long smothered by oppression. Told with searing honesty, this is a story of struggle, cruelty, and courage populated by ordinary people who risk their lives for freedom.Trade Review"Was an important start in bringing fast and uncensored information to the war-stricken people of Afghanistan" – Hamid Karzai, former president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, on the radio station, "A fast-paced mix of humour and heartbreak. The reader is assaulted with the sights, sounds and above all the smells of downtown Kabul in the months that followed the US invasion" --Andy Home, author, Siberian Dreams
£9.49
Dis Voir Nothing in My Pockets
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£25.50
OUP Oxford Defining the Discographic Self
Book SynopsisDesert Island Discs has run on BBC radio since 1942 and its archive is now accessible. This book is the first to assess the programme from a scholarly perspective. Chapters by musicologists, sociologists, and media scholars are complemented by personal spins by 'castaways', who reflect on talking publicly about the role of music in their lives.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Documenting the World
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£31.00
The University of Chicago Press Whats Fair on the Air Cold War RightWing
Book SynopsisCharts the rise and fall of four of the most prominent right-wing broadcasters during the Cold War: H L Hunt, Dan Smoot, Carl McIntire, and Billy James Hargis.Trade Review"What's Fair on the Air? is a fascinating look at the inner world of ultra-conservatism. Funny, insightful, and beautifully researched, it uncovers a group of media activists who played a critical part in building the modern right." (Kimberley Phillips-Fein, author of Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan)"
£91.00
The University of Chicago Press Whats Fair on the Air Cold War RightWing
Book SynopsisCharts the rise and fall of four of the most prominent right-wing broadcasters during the Cold War: H L Hunt, Dan Smoot, Carl McIntire, and Billy James Hargis.Trade Review"What's Fair on the Air? is a fascinating look at the inner world of ultra-conservatism. Funny, insightful, and beautifully researched, it uncovers a group of media activists who played a critical part in building the modern right." (Kimberley Phillips-Fein, author of Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan)"
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Gogo Breeze Zambias Radio Elder and the Voices
Book SynopsisWhen Breeze FM Radio, in the provincial Zambian town of Chipata, hired an elderly retired school teacher in 2003, no one anticipated the skyrocketing success that would follow. A self-styled grandfather on air, Gogo Breeze seeks intimacy over the airwaves and dispenses advice on a wide variety of grievances and transgressions. Multiple voices are broadcast and juxtaposed through call-ins and dialogue, but free speech finds its ally in the radio elder who, by allowing people to be heard and supporting their claims, reminds authorities of their obligations toward the disaffected. Harri Englund provides a masterfully detailed study of this popular radio personality that addresses broad questions of free speech in Zambia and beyond. By drawing on ethnographic insights into political communication, Englund presents multivocal morality as an alternative to dominant Euro-American perspectives, displacing the simplistic notion of voice as individual personal property an idea common in both pol
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Gogo Breeze Zambias Radio Elder and the Voices of
Book SynopsisWhen Breeze FM Radio, in the provincial Zambian town of Chipata, hired an elderly retired school teacher in 2003, no one anticipated the skyrocketing success that would follow. A self-styled grandfather on air, Gogo Breeze seeks intimacy over the airwaves and dispenses advice on a wide variety of grievances and transgressions. Multiple voices are broadcast and juxtaposed through call-ins and dialogue, but free speech finds its ally in the radio elder who, by allowing people to be heard and supporting their claims, reminds authorities of their obligations toward the disaffected. Harri Englund provides a masterfully detailed study of this popular radio personality that addresses broad questions of free speech in Zambia and beyond. By drawing on ethnographic insights into political communication, Englund presents multivocal morality as an alternative to dominant Euro-American perspectives, displacing the simplistic notion of voice as individual personal property an idea common in both pol
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Theater of the Mind
Book SynopsisFor generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a theater of the mind. This book examines that characterization by recasting the radio play as an aesthetic object within its historical context.Trade Review"Theater of the Mind does more to reanimate the study of radio forms and structures - indeed, of sound art in general - than any work published in recent memory. Neil Verma's exploration of audio narratives and sonic techniques during radio drama's heyday opens up a vast body of creative work that has been shut off from serious contemplation for decades. It is an important intervention in the growing field of sound studies, not to be missed." (Michele Hilmes, University of Wisconsin - Madison)"
£90.00
Columbia University Press Radio Empire
Book SynopsisInitially created to counteract broadcasts from Nazi Germany, the BBC’s Eastern Service became a cauldron of global modernism and an unlikely nexus of artistic exchange. Daniel Ryan Morse demonstrates the significance of the Eastern Service for global Anglophone literature and literary broadcasting.Trade ReviewPacked with rich findings, this fascinating study offers invaluable new insights into the far-reaching impact of the BBC's Eastern Service as laboratory for the evolution of a global and transnational vision of modernity, a vision still reverberating across cultural, literary, and media studies today. -- Susheila Nasta, coeditor of The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British WritingWith archival surprises and deft close readings, Radio Empire shows how the BBC’s Eastern Service influenced the development of Anglophone fiction. Including treatments of canonical figures such as E. M. Forster and Mulk Raj Anand, as well as important but understudied novelists, such as Venu Chitale and Attia Hosain, Morse reveals how the technical constraints and possibilities of radio broadcasting impacted the formal conventions of English-language writing. It is an exciting contribution to colonial and postcolonial literary studies. -- Peter J. Kalliney, author of Modernism in a Global ContextWith his searching examination of the role of the BBC's Eastern Service in the development of the global Anglophone novel, Daniel Ryan Morse fills an important gap in literary radio studies. Wedding the insights of postcolonial studies and media theory, Radio Empire capably establishes the salience of transnational and intermedial exchange to the literary history of the mid-twentieth century. -- Debra Rae Cohen, coeditor of Broadcasting ModernismRadio Empire makes a substantial contribution to both radio studies and study of literary modernism . . . Morse provides deeply researched readings that change one's understanding not only of individual texts but also of the shape and scope of literary and media histories. Morse navigates multiple social contexts to make sometimes surprising and always convincing remarks about how politically progressive these literary and radio texts turn out to be . . . Essential. * Choice *Radio Empire pushes against the siloed ways in which literary modernism is often studied, with writers from the Global North and those of South Asian heritage assessed separately. Here, conceptually and methodologically, Morse’s approach is fresh and ambitious . . . [this book] reveals the profound nature of the impact the BBC Eastern Service had upon the printed and broadcast word, and how intertwined the relationship between the two was. * LSE Review of Books *This is an important book for students of Indian Anglophone literature but is also a useful contribution to the history of BBC Radio 3 and the role of the BBC’s external broadcasts. * Radio User *An excellent historical account of an understudied part of the BBC . . . [This book] will undoubtedly be a great tool for any scholar working on broadcasting history, postcolonial studies, and post-war literary history. * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *Radio Empire is an important work of scholarship, offering a considered analysis of the relationship between radio and literature in the war and post-war years. * The Orwell Foundation Blog *Morse’s compelling account of the intermedial relationship between radio and the novel in the mid-twentieth century is a valuable contribution to scholarship of literary radio, modernism, and postcolonial studies. * Modernism/modernity *A welcome archival counterpart to works by Eric Hayot, Pheng Cheah, and Emily Apter. * NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1: Finnegans Waves: James Joyce Between the BBC and 2RN2: Reviewing Some Books: E. M. Forster as Blind Uncle3: The End of Empire: Mulk Raj Anand’s Comparative Modernisms4: Intimate and Kaleidosonic Styles: Attia Hosain, Venu Chitale, and the Hybrid NovelEpilogue: The Eastern Service in the Era of DecolonizationNotesBibliographyIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press Radio Empire The BBCs Eastern Service and the
Book SynopsisInitially created to counteract broadcasts from Nazi Germany, the BBC's Eastern Service became a cauldron of global modernism and an unlikely nexus of artistic exchange. Daniel Ryan Morse demonstrates the significance of the Eastern Service for global Anglophone literature and literary broadcasting.Trade ReviewPacked with rich findings, this fascinating study offers invaluable new insights into the far-reaching impact of the BBC's Eastern Service as laboratory for the evolution of a global and transnational vision of modernity, a vision still reverberating across cultural, literary, and media studies today. -- Susheila Nasta, coeditor of The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British WritingWith archival surprises and deft close readings, Radio Empire shows how the BBC’s Eastern Service influenced the development of Anglophone fiction. Including treatments of canonical figures such as E. M. Forster and Mulk Raj Anand, as well as important but understudied novelists, such as Venu Chitale and Attia Hosain, Morse reveals how the technical constraints and possibilities of radio broadcasting impacted the formal conventions of English-language writing. It is an exciting contribution to colonial and postcolonial literary studies. -- Peter J. Kalliney, author of Modernism in a Global ContextWith his searching examination of the role of the BBC's Eastern Service in the development of the global Anglophone novel, Daniel Ryan Morse fills an important gap in literary radio studies. Wedding the insights of postcolonial studies and media theory, Radio Empire capably establishes the salience of transnational and intermedial exchange to the literary history of the mid-twentieth century. -- Debra Rae Cohen, coeditor of Broadcasting ModernismRadio Empire makes a substantial contribution to both radio studies and study of literary modernism . . . Morse provides deeply researched readings that change one's understanding not only of individual texts but also of the shape and scope of literary and media histories. Morse navigates multiple social contexts to make sometimes surprising and always convincing remarks about how politically progressive these literary and radio texts turn out to be . . . Essential. * Choice *Radio Empire pushes against the siloed ways in which literary modernism is often studied, with writers from the Global North and those of South Asian heritage assessed separately. Here, conceptually and methodologically, Morse’s approach is fresh and ambitious . . . [this book] reveals the profound nature of the impact the BBC Eastern Service had upon the printed and broadcast word, and how intertwined the relationship between the two was. * LSE Review of Books *This is an important book for students of Indian Anglophone literature but is also a useful contribution to the history of BBC Radio 3 and the role of the BBC’s external broadcasts. * Radio User *An excellent historical account of an understudied part of the BBC . . . [This book] will undoubtedly be a great tool for any scholar working on broadcasting history, postcolonial studies, and post-war literary history. * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *Radio Empire is an important work of scholarship, offering a considered analysis of the relationship between radio and literature in the war and post-war years. * The Orwell Foundation Blog *Morse’s compelling account of the intermedial relationship between radio and the novel in the mid-twentieth century is a valuable contribution to scholarship of literary radio, modernism, and postcolonial studies. * Modernism/modernity *A welcome archival counterpart to works by Eric Hayot, Pheng Cheah, and Emily Apter. * NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1: Finnegans Waves: James Joyce Between the BBC and 2RN2: Reviewing Some Books: E. M. Forster as Blind Uncle3: The End of Empire: Mulk Raj Anand’s Comparative Modernisms4: Intimate and Kaleidosonic Styles: Attia Hosain, Venu Chitale, and the Hybrid NovelEpilogue: The Eastern Service in the Era of DecolonizationNotesBibliographyIndex
£27.00
Columbia University Press Podcast Journalism
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£93.60
University of Illinois Press Air Castle of the South
Book SynopsisHow WSM put Nashville on the map of American entertainment Trade Review"In the midst of commercial radio's struggles comes a reminder of its glory days, when stations' soaring transmitter towers seemed like monuments to the broadcasters' influence. Air Castle of the South, by Craig Havighurst, tells the story of one such station, Nashville's WSM-AM. . . . While Mr. Havighurst, a music journalist and documentarian, is most interested in the station's cultural import, Air Castle of the South also presents a fascinating case study in the rise of commercial broadcasting. . . . Mr. Havighurst has done a service in preserving the colorful and instructive history of WSM - and in reminding us that giants once lived on the radio dial."--Wall Street Journal“Air Castle of the South brings a great deal of existing and new information about WSM into a single location. Havighurst employs a very readable style in presenting the history of this radio station, and there is no doubt that WSM has fostered the dissemination of country music. This book will have tremendous appeal to both general readers and scholars interested in country music.”--James E. Akenson, cochairman, International Country Music Conference, and coeditor of Country Music Goes to War "This is a vital book in the canons of country music history, but it's also a delightful read because the corporate growth and technological advances are peppered with stories such as Ernest Tubb's arrest for firing a gun in the National Life lobby and Hank Williams's call from jail. Havighurst treats WSM as if it's a character as rich and important as those it made famous, and he recreates the intangible studio moments that evaporate into thin air after reaching listeners' homes."--Weekly Standard"Havighurst has done a service in preserving the colorful and instructive history of WSM--and in reminding us that giants once lived on the radio dial."--Wall Street Journal"Havighurst provides impressive detail. . . . [And] has created a fascinating and compelling work, shedding significant new light on how Nashville, 'The Athens of the South,' evolved into Music City USA."--No Depression"[Air Castle of the South is] a fascinating narrative that describes in exhaustive detail the behind-the-scene stories, larger-than-life characters and an unwieldy trajectory that mirrored the increasing complexity of the broadcasting business in general. . . . [A]n engrossing paean to a station that became an American institution."--Performing Songwriter"Havighurst and the University of Illinois Press have produced a first-rate history, a biography of a radio station and a town, and a document that will help future generations appreciate the true story of country music. Highly recommended."--Bluegrass Unlimited"A deeply interesting . . . book. Craig Havighurst tells the tale mostly through a mosaic of biographical bits and pieces about a wide range of major players through the earlier years of the station's development. . . . A useful resource."--Dirty Linen "4 stars. Riding the airwaves through the history of Nashville's premier radio station."--MOJO "A well-researched and comprehensive history of one of the most influential radio stations in the history of both broadcasting and country music. . . . Anyone even remotely interested in country music will enjoy this long overdue history of early radio days and the large part one station in particular played in the evolution and dissemination of the genre."--Sing Out "Craig Havighurst has written an indispensable and long overdue history of WSM, which is likely to stand as the definitive work for some time. This book is a jewel in the crown of the country music list published by the University of Illinois Press."--Michael Streissguth, author of Johnny Cash: The Biography
£22.79
University of Illinois Press Radios Hidden Voice
Book SynopsisA detailed study of American public radio's early historyTrade ReviewWinner of the Best Book in Journalism and Mass Communication given by the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), 2010. "Undergirding this discussion with prodigious research in primary sources, Slotten provides an ambitious history of public broadcasting in the US. . . . Recommended."--Choice"This is a masterful work. It is for anyone interested in exploring the ways in which education institutions helped develop broadcast policy in the United States."--Journalism History"A gem of a look a the birth of public broadcasting."--Jhistory"An important contribution to the histories of both radio and higher education."--The Annals of Iowa"Impressively researched and clearly written, Radio's Hidden Voice recovers a lost and important chapter in American broadcasting history."--James L. Baughman, author of Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 1948-1961"This thoroughly researched and engaging account constitutes an important contribution to the growing shelf of scholarship on public radio, early radio history, and on questions of how the 'public interest' has been defined in broadcast and communication policy in the twentieth century."--Jason Loviglio, author of Radio's Intimate Public: Network Broadcasting and Mass-Mediated DemocracyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Prologue 1 1. Public-Service Experimentation, Land-Grant Universities, and the Development of Broadcasting in the United States, 1900-1925 9 2. University Stations, Extension Ideals, and Broadcast Practices during the 1920s 40 3. Public-Service Broadcasting and the Development of Radio Policy, 1900-1927 80 4. The Federal Radio Commission and the Decline of Noncommercial Educational Stations, 1927-34 113 5. Education and the Fight to Reform Radio Broadcasting, 1930-36 152 6. Broadcast Practices and the Stabilization of Noncommercial Stations during the 1930s and 1940s 178 7. Network Practices, Government Oversight, and Public-Service Ideals: The University of Chicago Round Table 216 Epilogue 239 Abbreviations 251 Notes 257 Index 305
£40.50
University of Illinois Press Give Em Soul Richard Race Radio and Rhythm and
Book SynopsisProvides an insightful account of a radio legend amid milestones of African American history.Trade Review"In his own voice, Stamz describes the rough-and-tumble world of early soul radio, the payola system that supplied everything from drugs to food, and the relationships between disc jockeys and independent record companies."--Booklist"A fascinating narrative about an era that is still underresearched. . . . A welcome addition to what we know about the evolution of black radio."--Journal of Illinois History “This story makes an indelible contribution to the field of African American studies. Readers not only get a story that opens them to the world of Richard Stamz; it opens them to the world that African Americans had made for themselves in the last century.”--Robert Pruter, from the foreword of Give 'Em Soul, Richard!
£16.14
University of Illinois Press Radio Utopia
Book SynopsisAs World War II drew to a close and radio news was popularized through overseas broadcasting, journalists and dramatists began to build upon the unprecedented success of war reporting on the radio by creating audio documentaries. Focusing particularly on the work of radio luminaries such as Edward R. Murrow, Fred Friendly, Norman Corwin, and Erik Barnouw, Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest traces this crucial phase in American radio history, significant not only for its timing immediately before television, but also because it bridges the gap between the end of the World Wars and the beginning of the Cold War.Matthew C. Ehrlich closely examines the production of audio documentaries disseminated by major American commercial broadcast networks CBS, NBC, and ABC from 1945 to 1951. Audio documentary programs educated Americans about juvenile delinquency, slums, race relations, venereal disease, atomic energy, arms control, and other issues of public interest, buTrade ReviewReceived the Tankard Book Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), 2012. "An excellent contribution to the now-burgeoning field of revisionist radio scholarship."--Technology and Culture"With careful attention to detail, a command of archival sources including recordings of old radio programs, and an understanding of how the radio industry operated, Ehrlich has produced an entertaining book with a convincing argument. It is that rarest of things—a monograph with a well-defined subject that has both scholarly integrity and an appeal to a wide audience."--American Historical Review"A vivid reflection of the social and cultural climate of the post-World War II era, Matthew C. Ehrlich's engaging study shows readers what was occurring on the national radio networks as the Cold War started and the impact that the war had on broadcasting and those who worked in it. This study is of significance to historians, mass communications scholars, and journalists." Patrick S. Washburn, author of The African American Newspaper: Voice of Freedom"Highly recommended."--Choice"A fascinating book that brings together important moments in journalism, technology, politics, world order, media control, and the mood in the United States during the postwar years. Ehrlich dramatically sharpens our understanding of how both radio and television news evolved during the late 1940s."--Mike Conway, author of The Origins of Television News in America: The Visualizers of CBS in the 1940s
£19.79
University of Washington Press Feminista Frequencies
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£20.89
WW Norton & Co Death of a Pirate
Book Synopsis“A superb account of the rise of modern broadcasting.” —Financial TimesTrade Review"A treasure... [Adrian] Johns portrays the British radio pirates not in the warm glow of sentimental memory that the period usually enjoys but in the historian's cold bright light." -- Randall Bloomquist "A well-written tale about those buccaneers of the high C's."
£19.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Rock This Way
Book SynopsisAny and all songs are capable of being remixed. But not all remixes are treated equally. Rock This Way examines transformative musical works - cover songs, remixes, mash-ups, parodies, and soundalike songs - to discover what contemporary American culture sees as legitimate when it comes to making music that builds upon other songs.Trade ReviewRock This Way provides one of the best and most nuanced discussions of the ethics of creativity I have seen in relation to popular music. The choice of examples is rich and interesting; the lively language is clear, fluent and funny; and the interdisciplinary approach is skillful. This is a fantastic book." - Larisa Kingston Mann, Temple UniversityTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Rock This Way, or The Shape of Musical Norms Chapter 1. Judge a Song by its Cover: Cover Songs Between Transformation and Extraction Chapter 2. Stir It Up: Remix and the Problem of Genre Chapter 3. Monstrous Mash: Mashups and the Epistemology of Difference Chapter 4. Fight for Your Right to Parody: Parodies and the Cultural Politics of Kindness Chapter 5. Feels like the First Time: The Politics and Poetics of Similarity in Soundalikes Conclusion: Toward a Theory of Ethical Transformative Musical Works Data Appendix References
£23.70
LUP - University of Michigan Press Rock This Way
Book SynopsisAny and all songs are capable of being remixed. But not all remixes are treated equally. Rock This Way examines transformative musical works - cover songs, remixes, mash-ups, parodies, and soundalike songs - to discover what contemporary American culture sees as legitimate when it comes to making music that builds upon other songs.Trade ReviewRock This Way provides one of the best and most nuanced discussions of the ethics of creativity I have seen in relation to popular music. The choice of examples is rich and interesting; the lively language is clear, fluent and funny; and the interdisciplinary approach is skillful. This is a fantastic book." - Larisa Kingston Mann, Temple UniversityTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Rock This Way, or The Shape of Musical Norms Chapter 1. Judge a Song by its Cover: Cover Songs Between Transformation and Extraction Chapter 2. Stir It Up: Remix and the Problem of Genre Chapter 3. Monstrous Mash: Mashups and the Epistemology of Difference Chapter 4. Fight for Your Right to Parody: Parodies and the Cultural Politics of Kindness Chapter 5. Feels like the First Time: The Politics and Poetics of Similarity in Soundalikes Conclusion: Toward a Theory of Ethical Transformative Musical Works Data Appendix References
£56.95
University of California Press Radio
Book SynopsisExamines radio's central place in the history of twentieth-century critical theory. This title considers how the radio came to matter, especially politically, to phenomenology, existentialism, Hegelian Marxism, anticolonialism, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies. It offers a fresh perspective on the role this technology plays today.Trade Review"It is Radio’s capacity to encourage the reader to attend to these kinds of issues that makes it such a pleasure to listen with Mowitt." * Parallax *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Object of Radio Studies 1. Facing the Radio 2. On the Air 3. Stations of Exception 4. Phoning In Analysis 5. Birmingham Calling 6. "We Are the Word"? Notes Works Cited Index
£27.00
University of California Press Anatomy of Sound
Book SynopsisExamines the work of Norman Corwin. Exploring the range of Corwin's work - from his World War II-era poetry and his special projects for the United Nations to his writing for film and television - and its influence on media today, this book features essays that underscore the political and social impact of Corwin's oeuvre.
£27.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Radio in the Global Age
Book SynopsisRadio in the Global Age offers a fresh, up--to--date, and wide--ranging introduction to the role of radio in contemporary society. It places radio, for the first time, in a global context, and pays special attention to the impact of the Internet, digitalization and globalization on the political--economy of radio.Trade Review'Part of what makes this book so engaging to read is its clear understanding and enjoyment of radio as a medium in its own right ... This book should serve to define what it is about radio that makes it so enduringly fascinating to listen to, to think about and study.' Paddy Scannell 'David Hendy's Radio in the Global Age is the best introduction to contemporary radio I have read. Hendy has done a masterful job of providing an outstanding overview while making a compelling argument about the role radio does play - and should play - in the social landscape.' Robert W. McChesney, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 'An invaluable introduction to radio today, with detailed illustrative material from all over the world. Hendy is a practising radio broadcaster and his professional understanding of the medium informs the whole book. It is beautifully written. An essential read.' Professor Paddy Scannell, University of Westminster 'David Hendy's engaging and wide-ranging study offers a galaxy of fascinating insights and revelations ... The book's international scope is impressive ... Media students and radio professionals should welcome the vast sweep and irrepressible enthusiasm of this important survey as a significant contribution to the expanding discipline of radio studies.' Times Higher Education Supplement 'The book is formidably researched, showing a knowledge both of current developments and the views of previous media scholars, which Hendy often expresses more clearly than they have. He writes like a true teacher: distinctions are carefully drawn, key points clearly itemized. But his is not just a taxonomy of modern radio, it is sprinkled with reflections which are clearly the result of some shrewd intellectual thinking ... an outstanding book - a milestone in radio studies.' European Journal of Communication 'Hendy rightly reminds us that radio should be central to discussions about the globalization of the music industry and the concomitant debates about identity and culture. This book, then, comes as a welcome intervention in the debates about media and globalization and offers an essential contribution to a better understanding of this "invisible medium". But Hendy does more than simply fit the radio piece into the jigsaw of globalized media, though this is undoubtedly a useful exercise in itself. With all its peculiarities as a medium of sounds in world of images, as an intimate, localized medium existing in the global age, putting the radio at centre stage allows some of the cliches about globalization to be problematized.' New Media and Society 'David Hendy's book is a well-informed, clearly written and judicious survey of radio at the beginning of the digital era.' Journal of Australian StudiesTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Table. List of Boxes. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Radio in the Social Landscape. The Structure of this Book. Chapter 1: Industry. The Global Structure of Radio:. Industrial Sectors. Funding and Goals. Local, National and International Dimensions. Commercialization:. Diversity. Consolidation and Control. Technology. A Global or a Local Industry?. Chapter 2: Production. Producers:. Producing 'actuality'. Producing narratives. Producing 'liveness'. Time and Money. Formats:. Programme Formats. Station Formats. Schedules. Creativity versus Predictability. Chapter 3: Audiences. The Act of Listening. The Radio Audience. The Active Audience. Chapter 4: Meanings. Radio as Communicator. Radio texts: Talk and Music:. Talk. Music. Radio and Modernity: Time, Place and 'Communicative Capacity'. Time. Place. 'Communicative Capacity'. Chapter 5: Culture. Radio and Democratic Culture. Radio and Identity. Radio, Music and Cultural Change. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index
£54.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Radio in the Global Age
Book SynopsisRadio in the Global Age offers a fresh, up--to--date, and wide--ranging introduction to the role of radio in contemporary society. It places radio, for the first time, in a global context, and pays special attention to the impact of the Internet, digitalization and globalization on the political--economy of radio.Trade Review'Part of what makes this book so engaging to read is its clear understanding and enjoyment of radio as a medium in its own right ... This book should serve to define what it is about radio that makes it so enduringly fascinating to listen to, to think about and study.' Paddy Scannell 'David Hendy's Radio in the Global Age is the best introduction to contemporary radio I have read. Hendy has done a masterful job of providing an outstanding overview while making a compelling argument about the role radio does play - and should play - in the social landscape.' Robert W. McChesney, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 'An invaluable introduction to radio today, with detailed illustrative material from all over the world. Hendy is a practising radio broadcaster and his professional understanding of the medium informs the whole book. It is beautifully written. An essential read.' Professor Paddy Scannell, University of Westminster 'David Hendy's engaging and wide-ranging study offers a galaxy of fascinating insights and revelations ... The book's international scope is impressive ... Media students and radio professionals should welcome the vast sweep and irrepressible enthusiasm of this important survey as a significant contribution to the expanding discipline of radio studies.' Times Higher Education Supplement 'The book is formidably researched, showing a knowledge both of current developments and the views of previous media scholars, which Hendy often expresses more clearly than they have. He writes like a true teacher: distinctions are carefully drawn, key points clearly itemized. But his is not just a taxonomy of modern radio, it is sprinkled with reflections which are clearly the result of some shrewd intellectual thinking ... an outstanding book - a milestone in radio studies.' European Journal of Communication 'Hendy rightly reminds us that radio should be central to discussions about the globalization of the music industry and the concomitant debates about identity and culture. This book, then, comes as a welcome intervention in the debates about media and globalization and offers an essential contribution to a better understanding of this "invisible medium". But Hendy does more than simply fit the radio piece into the jigsaw of globalized media, though this is undoubtedly a useful exercise in itself. With all its peculiarities as a medium of sounds in world of images, as an intimate, localized medium existing in the global age, putting the radio at centre stage allows some of the cliches about globalization to be problematized.' New Media and Society 'David Hendy's book is a well-informed, clearly written and judicious survey of radio at the beginning of the digital era.' Journal of Australian StudiesTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Table. List of Boxes. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Radio in the Social Landscape. The Structure of this Book. Chapter 1: Industry. The Global Structure of Radio:. Industrial Sectors. Funding and Goals. Local, National and International Dimensions. Commercialization:. Diversity. Consolidation and Control. Technology. A Global or a Local Industry?. Chapter 2: Production. Producers:. Producing 'actuality'. Producing narratives. Producing 'liveness'. Time and Money. Formats:. Programme Formats. Station Formats. Schedules. Creativity versus Predictability. Chapter 3: Audiences. The Act of Listening. The Radio Audience. The Active Audience. Chapter 4: Meanings. Radio as Communicator. Radio texts: Talk and Music:. Talk. Music. Radio and Modernity: Time, Place and 'Communicative Capacity'. Time. Place. 'Communicative Capacity'. Chapter 5: Culture. Radio and Democratic Culture. Radio and Identity. Radio, Music and Cultural Change. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index
£18.04
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Radio in the Digital Age
Book SynopsisRadio s influence can be found in almost every corner of new media. Radio in the Digital Age assesses a medium that has not only survived the challenges of a new technological age but indeed has extended its reach.Trade Review''Dubber challenges us to reinvent how we think about the media in an age of rapid change. Both broad and detailed with insightful use of relevant examples, Radio in the Digital Age is comprehensive, compelling and accessible with big ideas that confront accepted - and often outmoded - ways of thinking about radio, the media and human communication in general.'' Matt Mollgaard, Auckland University of Technology ''This engaging book combines the author’s insider knowledge of, and passion for radio, with a nuanced critique of ‘the digital age’. It is all about radio, but recognises that radio is not all there is - which makes it a contribution that should resonate in studies of digital media more broadly.'' Kate Lacey, Sussex University ''Dubber’s book is a timely and provocative intervention in the burgeoning field of radio studies. “Something is happening to radio”, Dubber claims, and goes on to describe this moving target as vividly and astutely as anyone could hope for. Combining a deep love of radio with sharp appreciation of how it is being shaped by the shifting world of culture, music, industry and twenty-first century life, Radio in the Digital Age is a wide-ranging, up-to-date, and highly readable exploration of this wonderfully protean medium.'' David Hendy, Sussex UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vi Abbreviations viii 1 What is Radio? 1 2 Radio in the Digital Landscape 25 3 Radio and Everyday Life 47 4 The Sound of Music 74 5 Stories in the Air 101 6 Radio and Technology 125 7 Radio in Society 150 8 Don’t Touch That Dial (What Dial?) 175 References 183 Index 192
£45.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Radio in the Digital Age
Book SynopsisRadio s influence can be found in almost every corner of new media. Radio in the Digital Age assesses a medium that has not only survived the challenges of a new technological age but indeed has extended its reach.Trade Review''Dubber challenges us to reinvent how we think about the media in an age of rapid change. Both broad and detailed with insightful use of relevant examples, Radio in the Digital Age is comprehensive, compelling and accessible with big ideas that confront accepted - and often outmoded - ways of thinking about radio, the media and human communication in general.'' Matt Mollgaard, Auckland University of Technology ''This engaging book combines the author’s insider knowledge of, and passion for radio, with a nuanced critique of ‘the digital age’. It is all about radio, but recognises that radio is not all there is - which makes it a contribution that should resonate in studies of digital media more broadly.'' Kate Lacey, Sussex University ''Dubber’s book is a timely and provocative intervention in the burgeoning field of radio studies. “Something is happening to radio”, Dubber claims, and goes on to describe this moving target as vividly and astutely as anyone could hope for. Combining a deep love of radio with sharp appreciation of how it is being shaped by the shifting world of culture, music, industry and twenty-first century life, Radio in the Digital Age is a wide-ranging, up-to-date, and highly readable exploration of this wonderfully protean medium.'' David Hendy, Sussex UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vi Abbreviations viii 1 What is Radio? 1 2 Radio in the Digital Landscape 25 3 Radio and Everyday Life 47 4 The Sound of Music 74 5 Stories in the Air 101 6 Radio and Technology 125 7 Radio in Society 150 8 Don’t Touch That Dial (What Dial?) 175 References 183 Index 192
£15.19
John Wiley & Sons Inc Waiting for the Mountain to Move
Book SynopsisHandy writes with the eloquence of simplicity and his gift tous is an enjoyable, profound, and reliable guide toward meaning anddirection.--Max De Pree, author of Leading without Powerand chairman emeritus, Herman Miller Inc. Charles Handy''s reflections on work and life have earned himlegions of fans throughout the world. His previous books havetogether sold over a million copies. And his Thought for the Dayseries on BBC radio is celebrated throughout the U.K. Now presentand future fans in America can sample what his BBC listeners haveenjoyed for so long. Waiting for the Mountain to Moveincludes the gifted commentator''s best essays, culled from tenyears of radio broadcasts. These succinct writings draw poignantlessons from everyday occurrences and cause us to examine ourlives, our institutions, and our society in a different andrevealing light. NOT FOR SALE OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICATrade Review"Charles Handy is a brave and passionate teacher willing to riskprophecy. He writes with the eloquence of simplicity and his giftto us is an enjoyable, profound and reliable guide toward meaningand direction." --Max De Pree, author and chairman emeritus,Herman Miller Inc "A book from Charles Handy can be compared to a fine wine:beautifully balanced, smooth yet provocative, and a topic ofconversation long after the final sip." --ProfessionalMarketingTable of ContentsBy Way of Introduction. Waiting for the Mountain to Move. Buffalo Bill or Me? Pope Leo X and Kant. On Planting a Walnut Tree. Sticking Points. Idiosyncrasy Credits. Negative Capability. Trust and the Plumber. Last Month We Closed a Factory. Chindogu. Type Two Accountability. Compromise. Seven Intelligences. Home for Christmas. Life is Not a Dress Rehearsal . The God of Small Things. The White Stone. Rat Races and Whirlpools. The Dandelions. The Lure of the Zeros. Fifty Thousand Hours. Marathons Not Horse Races. Cousin Molly and Degas. Organizations for Masochists. Fixed Intangible Assets. Life's Open Questions. 1/2 x 2 x 3. Beyond the Market. The Message of the Chimney. The Family Tree. A Grandmother's Funeral. The Heart of the Matter. Borrowing from the Grandchildren. The Autumn Cull. Where No Phones Ring. Virtual Villages. Blame It On the Greeks. The Pendulum Principle. Go and He Goeth Not. Chinese Contracts. A Tower of Babel. The "They" Syndrome. The Greener Grass. Fish Soup. Group Think. Glooming in the Bath. Subsidiary. The F's and the P's. We Are All Alchemists. A Holy Place. Land Mines and Lottery Tickets. Quality. Who Needs a Whip? Entrepreneurs All. Simple Idolatry. Sign It!. The Choir of Male Convenience. Learning From Misdoing. The Antigone Principle. The Win-Win Contract. Blinded By Stereotypes. The Point of Principle. Three- Faced Justice. The Missing Words. Enterprise for What? Image Enhancement. Jesus Was Lame. Horizontal Fast Tracks. Hi -Touch for Hi-Tech. Picture Framing. Gyroscopes for Morals. Masaccio's Trinity. Degrees for Life. The Compost Theory. SPG. Postscript: The Mystery of the Universe.
£22.39
Johns Hopkins University Press Fireside Politics
Book SynopsisFinally, he draws thoughtful comparisons of the American experience of radio broadcasting and political culture with those of Australia, Britain, and Canada.Trade ReviewAn impressively researched and useful study... Craig subtly winds his interpretive, critical thread of the unfulfilled promise of radio as an engine of a more expansive democracy into a larger narrative about the institutional and ideological sway of commercial radio interests. -- Brett Gary Journal of American History Douglas Craig's main goal was to write a political history of radio broadcasting in the United States before World War II; however, he has also succeeded in producing the best general study yet published on the development of radio broadcasting during this crucial period when key institutional and social patterns were established. -- Hugh R. Slotten Technology and Culture Fireside Politics is the most complete study so far of the interactions between broadcasting and the U.S. political system during the 'golden age' of radio... Likely to become a leading reference in continuing discussions over communication history, technology, and democracy. -- Stephen Ponder H-Pol, H-Net Reviews A fascinating study making good use of archival material as well as prior research. CBQ 2005Table of ContentsList of Maps, Illustrations, Figures, and TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionAbbreviationsPart I: Making the Medium, 1895-19401. The Radio Age: The Growth of Radio Broadcasting, 1895–19402. Radio Advertising and Networks3. Regulatory Models and the Radio Act of 19274. The Federal Radio Commission, 1927–19345. A New Deal for Radio? The Communications Act of 19346. The Federal Communications Commission and Radio, 1934–1940Part II: Radio and the Business of Politics, 1920-19407. The Sellers: Stations, Networks, and Political Broadcasting8. The Buyers: National Parties, Candidates, and Radio9. The Product: Radio Politics and Campaigning10. The Consumer: Radio, Audiences, and VotersPart III: Radio and Citizenship, 1920–194011. Radio and the Problem of Citizenship12. Radio at the Margins: Broadcasting and the Limits of Citizenship13. Radio and the Politics of Good TasteConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£22.50
University of Nebraska Press Crack of the Bat
Book SynopsisProvides a balanced, nuanced, and carefully documented look at radio and baseball over the past one hundred years, focusing on the interaction between team owners, local and national media, and government and business interests, with extensive coverage of the television and Internet ages, when baseball on the radio had to make critical adjustments to stay viable.Trade Review"Crack of the Bat will give you insight into the nostalgic power of baseball on the radio, and make you realize what you missed."—Hunter M. Hampton, Sport in American History"[Crack of the Bat is] a valuable resource for sport and media scholars alike that should encourage more work on sports radio's woefully under examined history."—Travis Vogan, Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television"Informed by the literature on the subject and the beneficiary of deep research in archival sources and oral histories, this book is based on sound scholarship, engages the general reader's interest, and will enlighten scholars in their study of the symbiotic relationship between radio and baseball."—John E. Miller, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society"Well researched, and equally well written and footnoted, Crack of the Bat is not only a welcome addition to electronic media research but would make an excellent addition to a history of sports in the media classroom."—Roger Heinrich, American Journalism"Crack of the Bat deserves to be on the reading list for courses in broadcast history and mass communication history."—Dave Ogden, Journalism & Mass Communication Educator“Once upon a time you had to go to a ballpark to experience a ball game. Today most of us enjoy baseball across several media, and almost always alone. A game on radio—or via television or Internet or news account—is not as good as being part of the crowd at the ballpark, but what is? This book. James Walker traces the history of baseball on the radio with unmatched love and erudition.”—John Thorn, official historian of Major League Baseball and author of Baseball in the Garden of EdenTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Introduction: A Game in Words and Sound Part I. The Formative Years, 1920–36 1. Early World Series Coverage 2. The Local Game Begins 3. Inventing a New Craft 4. The Baseball-Radio War 5. The World Series Triggers a National Obsession 6. Advertisers Expand Baseball Coverage Part II. The Age of Acceptance, 1937–60 7. Re-Creating Baseball 8. Baseball Reluctantly Embraces Radio 9. An Explosion in National Coverage Part III. The Television Years, 1961–Present 10. Radio in the Age of Television 11. The Modern Baseball Announcer 12. Baseball Broadcasts in the Digital Era Epilogue Appendix: Number of Team Radio Stations by Year, 1936–2001 Notes Index
£28.80
Stanford University Press Off Mike
Book SynopsisGives an account of the polarizing transformation of talk radio, from the author's early days at KGO commercial radio, through to his role at NPR, where he manages to keep the flow of talk in his San Francisco based show animated and politically balanced.Trade Review"Michael Krasny is one of the best interviewers I've ever heard or met. He's serious, erudite, always interested in the substance of an issue, and might be better prepared, day after day, than any general interest host in the world." * Dave Eggers *"[T]here is great value in the way Krasny articulates the relationship between writing and talk radio . . . In Off Mike, Krasny spices up his memoir with detailed biographic sketches and personal impressions of some of the writers he has interviewed . . . Off Mike is an important book for me. The highest compliment I can pay to the author is to state the simple truth. Michael Krasny, you have achieved your ambition: you are a writer." -- Dan Erwin * Bookin' with Sunny *"Perhaps the biggest plaudit to give Krasny—who aspired his whole life to be a novelist, but settled for hosting talk radio and television shows, doing live interviews and teaching college—is that this book is well written, and will equally please literati and listeners of commercial radio." -- San Jose Mercury News"Krasny is the best interviewer I have encountered. He has incredible memory. He is able to summarize and extract the essence of every discussion and challenge his guests without making them uncomfortable. He has a deep understanding of the subjects he tackles, and especially of the writing process and literature. He orchestrates his show beautifully, bringing his own insights and cutting to the heart of the matter." * Isabel Allende *"As all of his listeners know, Michael Krasny is smart, literate, provocative, original and probing, and so this book could not be more welcome." * Michael Beschloss *"There are radio hosts who have programs you look to participate in. They are few in number, but Michael Krasny is certainly in that category." * Norman Mailer *"Krasny's erudition and talent have no boundaries. What he has brought via the spoken word and the entertainment it provides now comes via the written word. It is a gift." * Robert Redford *"Michael Krasny is a Bay Area treasure who is nationally recognized for his insightful broadcast journalism. He consistently offers his audience both political wisdom and journalistic excellence." -- Nancy Pelosi * Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives *"Krasny is so well read, such an expansive and acquisitive mind, his writing brims over with tasty anecdotes and snippets of scholarship. Just about every page taught me something or reminded me of something I'd forgotten or pointed to some larger knowledge that I can only aspire to. Only a true man of learning could create a book like this, and only after a lifetime dedicated to his love of writing and the arts." -- Pop + Politics"Krasny's true literary accomplishment is befriending America's intellectual elite in a public forum, giving the lay audience aural Cliffs Notes of modern classics without condescending to them. In that sense, Krasny is to literature through Off Mike what Al Gore is to global warming in An Inconvenient Truth: a trusted communicator of profundities, whose one excusable mistake is that he tells us more than we wanted to know about himself in the process." -- SF Weekly"Michael Krasny is the best interviewer on all things cultural. He's gone tte a tte with leading authors and filmmakers, peacemakers and muckrakers, as well as the icons and innovators of the world. This book is much more than memoir. It seats us behind the mike with Michael, talking to him and some of the most interesting minds of our time." * Amy Tan *"Krasny agonizes over not having achieved the great dream of his youth—to become 'a respected and valued author.' Now, arguably, he has achieved with nonfiction what he failed to do as a novelist: Off Mike is reminiscent of the enormously entertaining fiction of Herman Wouk and Neil Simon. Even if Krasny is not a bird, his writing soars." -- San Francisco Chronicle"Krasny canonizes his talk radio career in this memoir, placing stories from his juicy backlog of interviews alongside tales of a neglectful father, his Ohio State fraternity, procreating and purchasing a home. His steadily honed love of language is palpable and infectious, suited more to the book party-hopping literary junkie than the broadcast historian. Eminent newsmakers, literary greats and iconoclasts open up to him like patients on a psychiatrists couch... " -- Publishers Weekly"Michael Krasny sets the standard by which all public affairs and cultural radio is measured. He is a Bay Area cultural institution." * Michael Chabon *"Off Mike is an insightful homage not only to his craft, at which he has few peers, but also to the impressive litany of writers and personalities who have appeared on his show. He is as thoughtful and gracious on the page as he is behind the mike." -- Khaled Hosseini * best-selling author of The Kite Runner *Table of Contents:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments xxx @toc2:Introduction 1 @toc2:1 A Lust for Lit 000 @toc3:Joyce Carol Oates 000 Russell Banks 000 E. L. Doctorow 000 Gay Talese 000 @toc2:2 The Noble Path 000 @toc3:David Mamet 000 Paul Auster 000 T. C. Boyle 000 Joan Didion 000 @toc2:3 Marrying Up 000 @toc3:Michael Chabon 000 Jonathan Safran Foer 000 Ian McEwan 000 David Lodge 000 @toc2:4 Slouching Towards Tenure 000 @toc3:Alice Walker 000 August Wilson 000 Maya Angelou 000 Edward P. Jones 000 @toc2:5 Expanding Identity 000 @toc3:Studs Terkel 000 Don DeLillo 000 Margaret Atwood 000 Grace Paley 000 @toc2:6 The Big Show @toc3:Tom Stoppard 000 Edward Albee 000 Tony Kushner 000 Wole Soyenka 000 @toc2:7 Into the Hall of Fame and Off the Team 000 @toc3:Louise Erdrich 000 Cynthia Ozick 000 Isabel Allende 000 Jane Smiley 000 @toc2:8 A Smiling Public Man 000 @toc3:Kazuo Ishiguro 000 Francis Ford Coppola Philip Roth 000 Colson Whitehead 000 @toc2:9 Attacks from the Air 000 @toc3:Amy Tan 000 Maxine Hong Kingston 000 Ha Jin 000 Edna O'Brien 000 @toc2:10 Cleveland Redux 000 @toc3: Art Spiegelman 000 Larry David 000 Harvey Pekar 000 A. M. Homes 000 @toc2:11 Meetings with Remarkables 000 Barbara Kingsolver 000 Reynolds Price 000 Khaled Hosseini 000 Frances Mayes 000 @toc2:12 Coming In for a Landing @toc3: Umberto Eco 000 V. S. Naipaul 000 Amos Oz 000 @toc2:Epilogue 000
£19.79
University of Virginia Press The Adventures of Amos n Andy A Social History
Book SynopsisFocusing on ""Amos 'n' Andy"", a nightly American radio comedy in the 1930s, this text unveils a tale of America's shifting colour line, in which two professional directors of blackface minstrel shows produced a series so complex that it won admirers ranging from ultra-racists to racial egalitarians.Trade ReviewCompelling... a stunningly objective look at the history of the program and how it affected, and was affected by, the culture at large....Remarkable. - Boston Globe; ""Amos 'n' Andy was an instant success, and went on to become both a national institution and a subject of racial controversy; Mr. Ely's sensitive and scholarly work shows us why."" - New Yorker; ""An engrossing, perhaps definitive, account of one of the most fascinating episodes in popular entertainment."" - Henry Louis Gates Jr.; ""Engaging....[Ely] does a brilliant job of sorting out what is in many ways a hellishly complex story....With exemplary scholarship and well-reasoned eloquence, he advances us a long way toward understanding, while also vividly revealing some unsettling aspects of our culture that shouldn't be forgotten."" - San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle; ""Painfully funny... ironic."" - Maureen Corrigan, ""Fresh Air,"" National Public Radio
£20.85
New York University Press Rebels on the Air
Book SynopsisA history of alternative radio.Trade ReviewThroughout Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America, Walker surveys the current state of radio and finds it wanting. * Chronicles *Rebels on the Air is a joyous, smart, lucid, hilarious, critical and engaging celebration of community based, non-commercial radio in the United States. Jesse Walker vividly captures the people, their visions and achievements, their friends and enemiesall in a book that is great fun to read. -- Matthew Lasar,author of Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative NetworkPresent-day American radioboth public and commercialhas, with its blandness, hidden the bodies of hundreds of idealists who tried to make it meaningful and interesting and alive. Whether it's micro radio, pirate radio, the Citizens Band, or Pacifica, Jesse Walker has done his homework, digging up often funny tales of strange characters who tried, in one way or another, to better the airwaves. -- Lorenzo W. Milam,author of Sex and Broadcasting and the Radio PapersThe book is a great addition to the literature of the ways in which the state uses regulatory edicts and strong-arm tactics to stifle people's freedom. -- George C. Leef * Freedom Daily *Without a doubt, this is the most detailed and well-researched book ever published on the history of free radio in America. This includes the most comprehensive history ever written on the modern microradio movement; culled from personal interviews, the writing is mostly engaging and fast-paced...A must read. * The About Guide *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments l Joe's Garage 2 The First Broadcasters 3 Siberia 4 The '60s 5 Into the '70s 6 Money from Washington 7 Free Radio Abroad 8 American Pirates 9 Micro Radio: Every Man a DJ 10 The FCC's Wars 11 CB, the Internet, and Beyond Notes Index About the Author
£23.74
John Wiley & Sons Something on My Own Gertrude Berg and American
Book SynopsisIn 1929, ""The Goldbergs"" debuted on the air, introducing Gertrude Berg - and her radio alter ego, Bronx housewife Molly Goldberg - to the nation. This biography provides a look at how Gertrude Berg carved a special place for herself in the annals of broadcast history.
£18.86
University of Minnesota Press Digital Baroque New Media Art and Cinematic
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£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Listening In
Book SynopsisBut Listening In is more than a history. It is also a reconsideration of what listening to radio has done to American culture in the twentieth century and how it has brought a completely new auditory dimension to our lives.Trade Review"Douglas's wonderful book offers a sophisticated history of radio listening." -Journal of American History
£25.96
The University of Alabama Press Norman Corwin and Radio The Golden Years
Trade ReviewA piece of American history. It is a significant era in the history of broadcasting. - The Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media
£23.36
Ohio University Press Powerful Frequencies Radio State Power and the
Book SynopsisRadio technology and broadcasting played a central role in the formation of colonial Portuguese Southern Africa and the postcolonial nation-state, Angola. Moorman details how settlers, the colonial state, African nationalists, and the postcolonial state all used radio to project power, while the latter employed it to challenge empire.Trade Review“This is an outstanding book. Moorman, already the author of a superb and influential social history of Angolan music, writes the definitive work on Angolan radio during the colonial and post-independence periods. It not only unearths new knowledge about Angolan history, but places Angolan developments in the wider canvas of the Cold war. That Moorman has achieved this through a book that is elegantly written and compellingly argued are but two of its many qualities. This will be a must read not only to those focused on modern Africa, but to anyone interested in the workings of state propaganda and the global Cold War.”“Moorman’s incisive study argues that the medium of radio is central to the history of human actors, political movements, wars, as well as the struggle for and the exercise of power in southern Africa. Yet radio has not heretofore been an object of systematic analysis in connection to Angola. Following her groundbreaking Intonations, Moorman once again proves herself to be one of the leading scholars on this key southern African nation.”“A gripping modern history of Angola that engages recent work reconfiguring the place of technology in everyday folks’ ability to experience, make, and make sense of politics as well as the place of the state in the history of settler colonialism, national liberation, decolonization, the Cold War, and postcolonial governance in the wider region.” * American Historical Review *“Marissa Moorman’s new book aptly captures the multiple dimensions of the enduring power of radio in mediating different historical moments in Angola. It is an excellent book that draws on multiple texts to narrate the role of radio both in Angola’s independence struggle and in the post-war of era of nation building.”“Moorman’s skilled narrative style allows her to move easily in her analysis between scales ranging from the global to the densely and vividly local. At moments the text reads like a thriller, one that informs and enlightens, and also complicates how we think about radio.” * Kronos *“In Moorman’s analysis, radio does not just exist for its content, it exists as a particular type of modern technology whose very power stems from its capacity to act (and be acted on) by its audiences…. Powerful Frequencies tells us how and why we need to finely tune our receivers, to attend to these ranging forms of power, and to hopefully—like the Angolans that have listened so carefully—find new ways to innovate and protest.” * Africa Is a Country *
£56.10
