Oxford Handbook of Radio and Podcasting

The Oxford Handbook of Radio and Podcasting provides a concise yet in-depth overview of the development of radio as a creative and cultural form, from early broadcasting to the digital present. Organized around major aspects of radio's social and political impact - on the arts, on news and documentary, on community, nation, identity, and culture - it draws on contributors from interdisciplinary backgrounds and many nationalities to explore the world of sound-based communication across a century of practice. Links are provided to illustrative sound clips in many chapters, along with chapter-by-chapter audiographies offering digital links to enable further listening.

List of contents

• Introduction to The Oxford Handbook of Radio and Podcasting - Michele Hilmes and Andrew J. Bottomley


• SECTION I: RADIO ARTS - MUSIC


• 1. Punch Cards and Playlists: Computation, Curation, and the Cybernetic Origins of Radio Formatting - Alexander Russo


• 2. Freeform Radio and the History of Music Streaming - Elena Razlogova


• 3. New Music Fridays: Now Available via Podcasts - Jeremy Wade Morris


• 4. "A Golden Age of Audio": Smart Speakers, Domestic Listening, and the Question of Radioness - Christina Baade


• 5. The Campus Radio Music Library in the Streaming Music Era - Brian Fautuex


• SECTION II: RADIO ARTS - DRAMA


• 6. British Radio Drama and Theatre - Hugh Chignell


• 7. Silly Women's Stories? The Foundational Role of the Daytime Radio Serial - Elana Levine


• 8. Korean Radio Drama: Mid-Century Melodramatic Voice Performance - Jina E. Kim


• 9. Sloppy Realism: Audio Drama, Field Recording, and the Radiophonic Unconscious - Neil Verma


• 10. Listen Without Limits: True Crime, Audio Drama, and BBC Sounds Podcasts - Leslie McMurtry


• SECTION III: RADIO ARTS - POETRY, POLITICS, AND POETICS


• 11. Through the Wild Dark: Loose Notes in Search of a Radio Poetics - Gregory Whitehead


• 12. Langston Hughes, The Man Who Went to War, and the Political Work of the Radio Ballad - Michele Hilmes


• 13. In the Air: Broadcasting the Poetry of the U.S. Women's Liberation Movement - Lisa Hollenbach


• 14. Noisy Feeds: Reciprocal Listening, Decolonial Struggle, and Play in Podcasting - Michelle Macklem


• SECTION IV: RADIO FACTUALITIES - DOCUMENTARY AND NONFICTION STORYTELLING


• 15. Back to Sound School: Revisiting the Aesthetic Norms of 1950s and 1960s Educational Radio - Matt St. John, Eric Hoyt, and Stephanie Sapienza


• 16. Sensational Voices: Discourses of Intimacy in Podcast Production Culture - Andrew J. Bottomley


• 17. The Invisible Art of Audio Storytelling - Siobhán McHugh


• 18. Giving Voice or Creating a Spectacle?: Personality, Intimacy, and Ehtics in First-Person Narrative Nonfiction Podcasting - Christopher Cwynar


• SECTION V: RADIO FACTUALITIES - NEWS AND TALK


• 19. Breakfast Radio: "We Wake Up Bright and Early Just to Howdy-Do Ya" - Amanda Keeler


• 20. The Strange Case of Topless Radio - Jacob Smith


• 21. Late-Night Talk Radio in Post-Mao China: From the Telecommunication Age to the Digital Age - Wei Lei


• 22. Podcast Journalism: Storytelling Experimentation and Emerging Conventions - Dylan Bird and Mia Lindgren


• 23. The Daily Dose: Podcasting and Broadcasting in the Public Interest - Jason Loviglio


• SECTION VI: RADIO AND COMMUNITY


• 24. Native American Radio History and the Indians for Indians Program - Lina Ortega and Josh Garrett-Davis


• 25. Finding Queer Soundwork: Information Activism in Lesbian Feminist Radio and Queer Podcast Networks - Stacey Copeland


• 26. Community Radio in Central and Eastern Europe: Poland Takes Two Steps Forward, One Step Back - Urszula Doliwa


• 27. Casting On Podcasts: Stitching Maker Identities into a Modern Sound Culture - Jennifer Hyland Wang


• SECTION VII: RADIO AND NATION


• 28. The BBC and the Rise and Fall of the Empire Radio Feature, 1932-1966 - Simon J. Potter


• 29. Kenyan Radio, Colonial Modernity, and Postcolonial Subjectivities - Dina Ligaga


• 30. Segregation on the Airwaves: From a Monolingual to a Multilingual Broadcasting Model in Angola and Mozambique - Nelson Ribeiro


• 31. Radio, Cinema, and the South Asian Soundscape: From Broadcasting to the Digital Era - Aswin Punathambekar


• 32. Educating the Public: U.S. Public Radio's Roots in Education and Research - Josh Shepperd


• SECTION VIII: RADIO CULTURE AND HISTORIOGRAPHY


• 33. Remediate, Listen, Repeat: Lives and Afterlives of Three Caribbean Archives - Alejandra Bronfman


• 34. Recuperating a Critical Tradition: John Crosby, Jack Gould, and the Development of American Newspaper Radio Criticism, 1946-1952 - Kathy Fuller-Seeley and Laura C. Brown


• 35. For the Love of Radio: The Archival Impulse in Broadcast Institutions - Carolyn Birdsall


• 36. Confronting the Inaudible Past: A Document-Based Approach to Audio Archaeology - Shawn VanCour


• 37. Communication in the Radio Century: Thinking Through Radio - Kate Lacey

About the author

Michele Hilmes is Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Andrew J. Bottomley is Associate Professor of Media Studies at SUNY Oneonta

Summary

Radio today remains the most accessible and widely available communication medium worldwide, despite technological shifts and a host of upstart challengers. Since its origins in the 1920s, radio has innovated a new world of sound culture - now expanded into the digital realm of podcasting that is enabling the medium to reach larger audiences than ever before. Yet radio remains one of the least studied of the major areas of communication arts, due largely to its broadcast-era ephemerality. With the advent of digital technology, radio's past has been unlocked and soundwork is exploding as a creative field, creating a lively and diverse sonic present while simultaneously making critical historical analysis possible at last.

This volume offers newly commissioned chapters giving readers a wide-ranging view of current critical work in the fields of radio and podcasting, employing specific case studies to analyze sound media's engagement with the arts; with the factual world of news, talk, and documentary programming; as a primary means of forging community along with national, transnational, and alternative identities; and as a subject of academic and critical research. Its historical scope extends from radio's earliest days, through its mid-twentieth century decades as the powerful voice of nations and empires, onto its transformation into a secondary medium during the television era, and into the expanding digital present. Over the course of 37 chapters, it provides evidence of the sound media's flexibility and adaptation across diverse cultures by examining radio's past and present uses in regions including the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia, Poland, China, Korea, Kenya, Angola and Mozambique, South Asia, and the Caribbean. Contributors include historians and media scholars as well as sound artists and radio/podcast producers. Notably, companion links to digital “quotations” from works analyzed are included in many chapters along with chapter audiographies offering links to further listening.

Throughout, The Oxford Handbook of Radio and Podcasting connects radio's broadcast past to its digital present, and traces themes of creativity, identity, community, nation, and transnationality across more than a century of audio media.

Product details

• Authors: Michele (Professor Emerita Hilmes
• Assisted by: Andrew J. Bottomley (Editor), Michele Hilmes (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.08.2024
• EAN: 9780197551127
• ISBN: 978-0-19-755112-7
• No. of pages: 792
• Series: Oxford Handbooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Radio, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Acoustics & Sound, PERFORMING ARTS / Radio / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Reference, PERFORMING ARTS / Radio / Reference, Reference works, Radio / Podcasts, Acoustic & sound engineering, Acoustic and sound engineering