Full Description
Why is music so important to radio? This anthology explores the ways in which musical life and radio interact, overlap and have influenced each other for nearly a century. One of music radio's major functions is to help build smaller or larger communities by continuously offering broadcast music as a means to create identity and senses of belonging. Music radio also helps identify and develop musical genres in collaboration with listeners and the music industry by mediating and by gatekeeping.
Focusing on music from around the world, Music Radio discusses what music radio is and why or for what purposes it is produced. Each essay illuminates the intricate cultural processes associated with music and radio and suggests ways of working with such complexities.
Contents
Introduction
Complexities of Genre, of Mediation and of Community
Mads Krogh and Morten Michelsen
Section I: Music Radio Ethnographies
1. Migrant Radio, Community and (New) Fado: The Case of Radio ALFA
Pedro Moreira, Universidade Nova, Portugal
2. On Sonic Assemblage: Indigenous Radio and the Management of Heteroglossia
Daniel Fisher, University of California, Berkeley, USA
3. Voicing Otherness on Air: Theorizing Radio Through the Figure of Voice
Kristine Ringsager, Aalborg University, Denmark, and Sandra Lori Pedersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Section II: Music Radio and Nation Building
4. Broadcasting the New Nation: Radio and the Intentions Behind National Genres in Latin America
Marcio Pinho and Julio Mendivil, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt
5. The Edufication and Musicalization of Radio: CKUA, "Good Music," and "Uplifting Taste"
Brian Fauteux, University of Alberta, Canada
6. Mediated Soundscapes: Representations of the National in the Soundscape Call-in Programme Äänien ilta
Meri Kytö, University of Tampere, Finland
7. Dispositives of Sound: Folk Music Collections, Radio and the National Imagination, 1890s-1960s
Johannes Müske, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Section III: Music Radio: Genre and Mediation
8. Mediatization - Radiofication - Musicalization
Alf Björnberg, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
9. Formats, Genres and Abstraction: On Musico-Generic Assemblages in the Context of Format Radio Production
Mads Krogh, Aarhus University, Denmark
10. Music Radio's Mediations of the Music-Cultural High/Low Divide Before the 1980s
Morten Michelsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Section IV: Music Radio Convergences
11. Format, the Literature of American Popular Music and Mr Crump
Eric Weisbard, University of Alabama, USA
12. MTV and the Remediation of FM radio
Ariane Holzbach, Federal Fluminense University, Brazil
13. Music Radio as a Format Remediated for the Stream-Based Music Use
Andreas Ægidius, University of Southern Denmark
