Russo Alexander Russo

Points on the Dial (eBook, PDF)

Golden Age Radio beyond the Networks

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Produktbeschreibung

The golden age of radio is often recalled as a time when the medium unified the nation, when families gathered around the radios in homes across the country to listen to live, commercially sponsored network broadcasts. In Points on the Dial, Alexander Russo revises our understanding of radio's past by revealing the hidden histories of production, distribution, and reception practices during this era, which extended from the 1920s into the 1950s. Russo brings to light a tiered broadcasting system with intermingling but distinct national, regional, and local programming forms, sponsorship patterns, and methods of program distribution. Examining a wide range of practices, including regional networking, sound-on-disc transcription, the use of station representatives, spot advertising, and programming aimed at homes with several radios, he not only recasts our understanding of the relationship between national networks and local stations but also charts the development of new ways of listening-often distractedly rather than attentively-that set the stage for radio in the second half of the twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 291
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822391128
• Artikelnr.: 54814270

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