{"product_id":"communities-of-the-air-9780822330950","title":"Communities of the Air","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAffirms the importance of invention of radio and explores how radio creates sets of overlapping communities of the air, including those who study and theorize radio as a technological, social, cultural, and historical phenomenon. This work explores radio's role in shaping Anglo-American culture and society since the early twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCommunities of the Air \u003c\/i\u003ecovers historical periods, genres, performers, program types, and audiences not previously discussed in this still all too thin area of radio studies.“—Susan Jeanne Douglas, author of \u003ci\u003eListening In: Radio and the American Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Turn up the volume! At last, we’re tuned in to the right frequency for radio studies. We all listen to radio, we remember our lives through it—and now we have the tools to understand it too.“—Toby Miller, author of \u003ci\u003eTechnologies of Truth: Cultural Citizenship and Popular Media\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Communities of the Air: Introducing the Radio World \/ Susan M. Squier 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRadio Technology across the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e AT\u0026amp;T Invents Public Access Broadcasting in 1923: A Foreclosed Model for American Radio \/ Steven Wurtzler 39\u003cbr\u003e Compromising Technologies: Government, the Radio Hobby, and the Discourse of Catastrophe in the Twentieth Century \/ Bruce Campbell 63\u003cbr\u003e A Promise Diminished: The Politics of Low-Power Radio \/ Nina Huntemann 76\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRadio Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Caribbean Voices on the Air: Radio, Poetry, and Nationalism in the Anglophone Caribbean \/ Laurence A. Breiner 93\u003cbr\u003e The Forgotten Fifteen Million: Black Radio, Radicalism, and the Construction of the \"Negro Market\" \/ Kathy M. Newman 109\u003cbr\u003e Packaged Alternatives: The Incorporation and Gendering of \"Alternative\" Radio \/ Lauren M. E. Goodlad 134\u003cbr\u003e Science Literacies: The Mandate and Complicity of Popular Science on the Radio \/ Donald Ulin 164\u003cbr\u003e Not Hearing Poetry on Public Radio \/ Martin Spinelli 195\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRadio Ideologies\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In the Radio Way: Elizabeth II, the Female Voice-Over, and the Radio's Imperial Effects \/ Adrienne Munich 217\u003cbr\u003e \"If the Country's Going Gracie, So Can You\": Gender Representation in Gracie Allen's Radio Comedy \/ Leah Lowe 237\u003cbr\u003e \"Are You Lonesome Tonight?”: Gendered Address in \u003ci\u003eThe Lonesome Gal\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Continental\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Mary Desjardins and Mark Williams 251\u003cbr\u003e Wireless Possibilities, Posthuman Possibilities: Brain Radio, Community Radio, Radio Lazarus \/ Susan M. Squier 275\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 305\u003cbr\u003e Index 307","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406032478551,"sku":"9780822330950","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822330950.jpg?v=1730494310","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/communities-of-the-air-9780822330950","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}