Communities of the air : radio century, radio culture /
edited by Susan Merrill Squier.
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
- viii, 318 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Communities of the air: introducing the radio world / AT&T invents public access broadcasting in 1923: a foreclosed model for American radio / Compromising technologies: government, the radio hobby, and the discourse of catastrophe in the twentieth century / Promise diminished: the politics of low-power radio / Caribbean voices on the air: radio, poetry, and nationalism in the Anglophone Caribbean / Forgotten fifteen million: black radio, radicalism, and the construction of the "Negro market" / Packaged alternatives: the incorporation and gendering of "alternative" radio / Science literacies: the mandate and complicity of popular science on the radio / Not hearing poetry on public radio / In the radio way: Elizabeth II, the female voice-over, and the radio's imperial effects / "If the country's going Gracie, so can you": gender representation in Gracie Allen's radio comedy / "Are you lonesome tonight?": gendered address in The lonesome gal and The continental / Wireless possibilities, posthuman possibilities: brain radio, community radio, radio Lazarus / Susan M. Squier -- Steven Wurtzler -- Bruce Campbell -- Nina Huntemann -- Laurence A. Breiner -- Kathy M. Newman -- Lauren M.E. Goodlad -- Donald Ulin -- Martin Spinelli -- Adrienne Munich -- Leah Lowe -- Mary Desjardins and Mark Williams -- Susan M. Squier Radio technology across the twentieth century: -- Radio cultures: -- Radio ideologies: --