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"Communities of the Air "covers historical periods, genres, performers, program types, and audiences not previously discussed in this still all too thin area of radio studies."--Susan Jeanne Douglas, author of "Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination"
List of contents
Acknowledgments ix
Communities of the Air: Introducing the Radio World / Susan M. Squier 1
Radio Technology across the Twentieth Century AT&T Invents Public Access Broadcasting in 1923: A Foreclosed Model for American Radio / Steven Wurtzler 39
Compromising Technologies: Government, the Radio Hobby, and the Discourse of Catastrophe in the Twentieth Century / Bruce Campbell 63
A Promise Diminished: The Politics of Low-Power Radio / Nina Huntemann 76
Radio Cultures Caribbean Voices on the Air: Radio, Poetry, and Nationalism in the Anglophone Caribbean / Laurence A. Breiner 93
The Forgotten Fifteen Million: Black Radio, Radicalism, and the Construction of the "Negro Market" / Kathy M. Newman 109
Packaged Alternatives: The Incorporation and Gendering of "Alternative" Radio / Lauren M. E. Goodlad 134
Science Literacies: The Mandate and Complicity of Popular Science on the Radio / Donald Ulin 164
Not Hearing Poetry on Public Radio / Martin Spinelli 195
Radio Ideologies In the Radio Way: Elizabeth II, the Female Voice-Over, and the Radio's Imperial Effects / Adrienne Munich 217
"If the Country's Going Gracie, So Can You": Gender Representation in Gracie Allen's Radio Comedy / Leah Lowe 237
"Are You Lonesome Tonight?": Gendered Address in
The Lonesome Gal and
The Continental / Mary Desjardins and Mark Williams 251
Wireless Possibilities, Posthuman Possibilities: Brain Radio, Community Radio, Radio Lazarus / Susan M. Squier 275
Contributors 305
Index 307
About the author
Susan Merrill Squier is Brill Professor of Women’s Studies and English at Pennsylvania State University. She is author of Babies in Bottles: Twentieth-Century Visions of Reproductive Technology and coeditor of Playing Dolly: Technocultural Formations, Fantasies, and Fictions of Assisted Reproduction and Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation.
