Description
This comprehensive companion is a much-needed reference source for the expanding field of radio, audio, and podcast study, taking readers through a diverse range of essays examining the core questions and key debates surrounding radio practices, technologies, industries, policies, resources, histories, and relationships with audiences.
Drawing together original essays from well-established and emerging scholars to conceptualize this multidisciplinary field, this book’s global perspective acknowledges radio’s enduring affinity with the local, historical relationship to the national, and its unpredictably transnational reach. In its capacious understanding of what constitutes radio, this collection also recognizes the latent time-and-space shifting possibilities of radio broadcasting, and of the myriad ways for audio to come to us 'live.' Chapters on terrestrial radio mingle with studies of podcasts and streaming audio, emphasizing continuities and innovations in form and content, delivery and reception, production cultures and aesthetics, reminding us that neither 'radio' nor 'podcasting' should be approached as static objects of analysis but rather as mutually constituting cultural forms.
This cutting-edge and vibrant companion provides a rich resource for scholars and students of history, art theory, industry studies, journalism, media and communication, cultural studies, feminist analysis, and postcolonial studies.
Chapter 42 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I Understanding Radio and Podcasting
- Michele Hilmes
- Tiziano Bonini
- Kate Lacey
- Susan J. Douglas
- Britta Jorgensen and Mia Lindgren
- Josh Shepperd
- David Goodman
- Len Kuffert
- Matt Mollgaard and Rufus McEwan
- Anne F. MacLennan
- Thokozani N. Mhlambi
- Nelson Ribeiro
- Derek W. Vaillant
- Cynthia B. Meyers
- Christine Ehrick
- Jennifer Hyland Wang
- Bill Kirkpatrick
- Neil Verma
- Kathleen Battles and Amanda Keeler
- Alexander T. Russo
- Kate Murphy
- Kathleen Battles and Joy Elizabeth Hayes
- Jason Loviglio
- Lyn Gallacher
- Siobhan McHugh
- Toni Sellas and Maria Gutierrez
- Alyn M. Euritt
- Leslie McMurtry
- Vinod Pavarala, Kanchan K. Malik, and Aniruddha Jena
- Bridget Backhaus and Jo Tacchi
- Alejandra Bronfman
- Emma Heywood
- Ganiyat Tijani-Adenle
- James Gabrillo
- Dolores Inés Casillas
- Neroli Price
- Heather Anderson, Charlotte Bedford, and Urszula Doliwa
- Caroline Mitchell and Peter Lewis
- Zita Joyce
- Richard Berry
- Dario Llinares
- Marta Perrotta
- J. Ignacio Gallego
- Andreas Lenander Ægidius
- Meng Wei, Salvatore Scifo, and Xu Yuanchun
- Andy Kelleher Stuhl
But Is It Radio? New Forms and Voices in the Audio Private Sphere
Podcasting as a Hybrid Cultural Form Between Old and New Media
Listening Back: Materiality, Mediatization, and Method in Radio History
Radio and Sound Studies: How We Got Here
'Pause and reflect' – practice-as-research methods in radio and podcast studies
Understanding Radio Archives: Coalitional Historiography and Sound Memory Work
Part II Histories
Radio and Democratic Citizenship
For anyone who’s someone: early radio’s democratic promise
Radio in New Zealand: The Neoliberal Experiment Comes of Age
Forming Networks: National Radio Networks − Public, State, and Commercial
Listening to Radio in South Africa, 1920s-1994
Transborder Broadcasting: Warfare, Propaganda, and Public Diplomacy on the Airwaves
Reactionary Conservatism and Legacies of Struggle in US Radio History
When Big Business was in Show Business: US Radio Before Television
Ethereal Gender: Thoughts on the History of Radio and Women’s Voices
‘When She Can Not Be Seen’: Constructing the Commercial Accent of Women’s Voices in Clara, Lu ‘n’ Em
Part III Formats, Genres, and Aesthetics
Radio Fever? The Health Roots of Early Radio
Nobody Knows Anything: Recessive Epistemologies in True Crime Podcasting
True Crime and Audio Media
Radio Formats: Sound Rules for Addressing the Narrowcast Audience Commodity
BBC Woman’s Hour
The Enduring Significance of The War of the Worlds as Broadcast Event
The Traffic in Feelings: The Car-Radio Assemblage
Radio features dead or alive?
From Phoebe’s Fall to The Last Voyage of the Pong Su: How an Australian Newspaper Made Hit Narrative Podcasts
Podcasting and Journalism in the Spanish-Speaking World
Podcasting's Transmedia Liveness
Transgressing Boundary Rituals on Radio
Part IV Radio and Podcast Publics
Community Radio as Development Radio: A Critical Analysis of Third-Sector Radio in South Asia
Uneasy allies: community radio and communication for social change
Radio, Decolonization, and Decoloniality in the Caribbean
Radio's role in empowering women in conflict-affected areas
Women FM (W.FM): The Women-focused Radio Station Amplifying the Voices of Nigerian Women
Radyo Tanudan: Sonic Collectivities in a Philippine Village
Listening to Don Cheto on Contemporary US Spanish-language Radio
Can True Crime Podcasts Make Structural Violence Audible?
The evolving genre of Prisoner Radio: An international examination
Part V Markets, Platforms, and Technologies
'This is so cool - radio at my fingertips!' Young people’s responses to Radio Garden
Taping Radio: Recording Memories
What is a podcast? Mapping the technical, cultural, and sonic boundaries between radio and podcasting
‘Podcast Studies’ and its Techno-Social Discourses
From Niche to Mainstream: The Emergence of a Podcasting Culture and Market in the Italian Radio Context
The New Role of Music Radio Formats: The Platformization of the Radio System?
How Radio is Remediated in Streaming: The Case of Radio in Spotify
Artificial Intelligence and Radio Broadcasting: Opportunities and Challenges in the Chinese Context
Radio Automation: Sonic Control in American Broadcasting
