Alexander Russo

Points on the Dial

Golden Age Radio Beyond the Networks

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A historical examination of the various forces that transformed radio into the locally-based, musically-oriented medium that has dominated the airwaves since the introduction of the television.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 164mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780822345176
• ISBN-10: 082234517X
• Artikelnr.: 29026378

Autorenporträt

Alexander Russo is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at The Catholic University of America.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Narratives of Radio's Geographies 1
1. The Value of a Name: Defining and Redefining National Network Radio 17
2. "The Lord is my Shepard, I shall not want": Regional Networks as Sites
of Community and Conflict 47
3. Brought to You via Electrical Transcription: Sound-in-Disc Recording and
the Perceptual Aesthetics of Radio Distribution Technologies 77
4. On the Spot: The Spatial and Temporal Flow of Spot Broadcasting 115
5. People with Money and Go: Locating Attention in the Human Geography of
Radio Reception 151
Conclusion: Open-End Game: The Legacy of Spots, Representatives, and
Transcriptions 184
Notes 191
Bibliography 241
Index 257