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Radio Art and Music - Culture, Aesthetics, Politics

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This book explores the cultural, aesthetic, and political relevance of music in radio art from its beginnings to present day. Contributors include musicologists, literary studies, and cultural studies scholars and cover radio plays, radio shows, and other programs in North American, English, Spanish, Greek, Italian, and German radio.

List of contents

Radio Art and Music: An Introduction

Jarmila Mildorf and Pim Verhulst

Chapter 1: The Making of a Nomenclature: José Iges on Radiophonic Art

Luz María Sánchez Cardona

Chapter 2: Maestro, If You Please: The Radio Producer as Musician

Jeremy Lakoff

Chapter 3: Norman Corwin, Bernard Herrmann, and Musical Direction for Columbia Presents Corwin

Reba A. Wissner

Chapter 4: “Attitudes toward History” and the Radiophonic Compositions of Daphne Oram and the Firesign Theatre

David McCarthy

Chapter 5: Between Art and Promotion: The Prix Italia, Its Historical Context and Aims in the First Fifty Years 1949-1998

Angela Ida De Benedictis

Chapter 6: A Canadian Experiment in Words-as-Music: Glenn Gould’s Invention of Form in his Radio Program The Idea of North

Elissa Guralnick

Chapter 7: Jewish Musical Material in a 1946 American Radio Drama: “Rachel”

Paula Eisenstein Baker and Robert S. Nelson

Chapter 8: The Bad Violin’s Good Politics: Music of Protest and Disavowal in The Jack Benny Program

Jade Conlee

Chapter 9: Shifting Hues of Blackface: Performance of Race in Radio Adaptations of Holiday Inn (1942)

Emily Lane

Chapter 10: Voicing the Other World: Music and the Victorian Occult in Midcentury American Radio Drama

Olivia Cacchione

Chapter 11: Collective Responsibility in Ingeborg Bachmann and Hans Werner Henze’s Radio Drama The Cicadas

Lucy Jeffrey

Chapter 12: Music and Politics in the BBC Radio Adaptation of Alan Bennett’s The Madness of George III

Jarmila Mildorf

Chapter 13: Adapting the Soundtrack of Revolution: Tom Stoppard’s Rock ’n’ Roll from Stage to Radio

Pim Verhulst

Chapter 14: Children’s Songs as Socio-Political Comment in the Greek Radio Show Edo Lilipoupoli

Aikaterini Giampoura

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Edited by Jarmila Mildorf and Pim Verhulst - Contributions by Olivia Cacchione; Jade Conlee; Angela Ida De Bene...

Summary

This book explores the cultural, aesthetic, and political relevance of music in radio art from its beginnings to present day. Contributors include musicologists, literary studies, and cultural studies scholars and cover radio plays, radio shows, and other programs in North American, English, Spanish, Greek, Italian, and German radio.

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Authors Jarmila Verhulst Mildorf
Assisted by Jarmila Mildorf (Editor), Pim Verhulst (Editor)
Publisher Lexington Books
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.04.2020
 
EAN 9781498599795
ISBN 978-1-4985-9979-5
No. of pages 276
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries
Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries

Musikgeschichte, Sociology, Musikwissenschaft und Musiktheorie, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies

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