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Radio's New Wave explores the evolution of audio media and sound scholarship in the digital age. Extending and updating the focus of their widely acclaimed 2001 book The Radio Reader, Hilmes and Loviglio gather together innovative work by both established and rising scholars to explore the ways that radio has transformed in the digital environment. Contributors explore what sound looks like on screens, how digital listening moves us, new forms of sonic expression, radio's convergence with mobile media, and the creative activities of old and new audiences. Even radio's history has been altered by research made possible by digital and global convergence. Together, these twelve concise chapters chart the dissolution of radio's boundaries and its expansion to include a wide-ranging universe of sound, visuals, tactile interfaces, and cultural roles, as radio rides the digital wave into its second century.
List of contents
"Introduction: Making Radio Strange" Jason Loviglio and Michele Hilmes Section 1: The Digital Soundscape 1. "Listening in the Digital Age" Kate Lacey 2. "Public Radio in Crisis" Jason Loviglio 3. "The New Materiality of Radio: Sound on Screens" Michele Hilmes 4. "The Past and Future of Music Listening: Between Freeform DJs and Recommendation Algorithms" Elena Razlogova Section 2: Radio’s New Sounds 5. "Youth, New Media, and Radio: Mobile Phone and Local Radio Convergence in Turkey" Ece Algan 6. "Listening to Race and Migration on Contemporary U.S. Spanish-language Radio" Dolores Inés Casillas 7. "Voices Made For Print": Crip Voices on the Radio" Bill Kirkpatrick 8. "‘Your Ears are a Portal to Another World’: The New Radio Documentary Imagination and the Digital Domain" Virginia Madsen Section 3: Radio’s New Histories 9. "El Octopus Acústico: Broadcasting and Empire in the Caribbean" Alejandra Bronfman 10. "Portia Faces the World: Rewriting and Revoicing American Radio for an International Market" Susan Smulyan and David Goodman 11. "Sounds from the Life of the Future: Making Sense of U.S. Radio Broadcasting in France, 1921-1940" Derek Vaillant 12. "Tick Tock Goes the Musical Clock: Time Discipline and Early Morning Radio Programs" Alexander Russo
About the author
Michele Hilmes is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author or editor of several books on broadcasting, including Radio Voices: American Broadcasting 1922 to 1952, Network Nations: A Transnational History of British and American Broadcasting, and The Radio Reader: Essays in the Cultural History of Radio (with Jason Loviglio).
Jason Loviglio is Associate Professor and Director of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is the author of Radio's Intimate Public: Network Broadcasting and Mass-Mediated Communication and co-editor (with Michele Hilmes) of The Radio Reader: Essays in the Cultural History of Radio.
