Making Radio
Early Radio Production and the Rise of Modern Sound Culture
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 26 April 2018
- ISBN 9780190497118
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 236x157x22 mm
- Weight 612 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 halftones; 1 table 0
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Short description:
Long before the network era, radio writers and programmers developed methods and performance styles that were grounded in emerging audio technologies. Making Radio reveals radio as the missing link in the history of modern sound culture.
MoreLong description:
The opening decades of the twentieth century witnessed a profound transformation in the history of modern sound media, with workers in U.S. film, radio, and record industries developing pioneering production methods and performance styles tailored to emerging technologies of electric sound reproduction that would redefine dominant forms and experiences of popular audio entertainment. Focusing on broadcasting's initial expansion during the 1920s, Making Radio explores the forms of creative labor pursued for the medium in the period prior to the better-known network era, assessing their role in shaping radio's identity and identifying affinities with parallel practices pursued for conversion-era film and phonography. Tracing programming forms adopted by early radio writers and programmers, production techniques developed by studio engineers, and performance styles cultivated by on-air talent, it shows how radio workers negotiated a series of broader industrial and cultural pressures to establish best practices for their medium that reshaped popular forms of music, drama, and public oratory and laid the foundation for a new era of electric sound entertainment.
[VanCour] presents a detailed, well-researched text on how radio production began and developed into a media format... Included with detailed examples are the ways engineers, writers, on-air talent, and others played important roles in how radio began structuring programming into schedules and genres, the effect of sound and speech on listeners, and radio's eventual success... Highly recommended.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction - A Production-Oriented Approach to Early Broadcasting
Ch. 1 - Making Radio Time: Managing Broadcasting's Sonic Flows
Ch. 2 - Making Radio Genres: Radiogenie as a Force in Early Program Development
Ch. 3 - Making Radio Music: Creating the Radio Sound
Ch. 4 - Making Radio Drama: Creating Sound Fictions
Ch. 5 - Making Radio Talk: Taming Electric Speech
Conclusion - Mediamaking and the Making of Media Labor
Appendix - A Note on Sources
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
