Radio country
Morgan Bimm / ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY
Dr. Morgan Bimm examines radio as a tool of nationalism and alienation.
Read moreTag: Radio
Radio country
LAW AND ORDER AND TV CRIME: FIGHTING FOR NARRATIVE CONTROL ON THE RADIO CRIME SITCOM
Catherine Martin / Denison University
Catherine Martin describes the dynamics of power and gender in the way actors and producers used their voices in detective radio shows.
Read more“Maybe You Don’t Know How to Listen…”: An Exercise in Contextualization
Laura Brown / University of Texas at Austin
Laura Brown unpacks a 1946 WCBS radio advertisement, and considers the multiple uses of archival materials.
Read moreA Tale of Two Catalogues: The Celestial Jukebox and Campus Radio Library
Brian Fauteux / University of Alberta
Brian Fauteux questions the theoretical “celestial jukebox” of algorithm-driven music streaming services and the actual variety and access their catalogues offer, and compares it to campus radio stations and their rich libraries of more local and diverse music.
Read moreWhat Happens When Chinese and Western Podcasters Meet?
Siobhán McHugh /University of Wollongong
Siobhán McHugh examines the transcultural strategies employed by Chinese podcasters in their translation of Western podcasts for the Chinese market.
Read moreSaving New Sounds: Podcasts and Preservation
Jeremy Wade Morris / University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jeremy Wade Morris writes about preserving podcasts and making them more researchable. He enumerates several reasons we should be invested in their longevity and accessibility.
Read moreVoices from Below: Storytelling Podcasts and the Politics of Everyday Life
Andrew J. Bottomley / SUNY Oneonta
Andrew J. Bottomley considers Radio + Love, a non-narrated podcast that gives voice to individuals that are typically marginalized or subcultural but does little to challenges the shortcomings of neoliberalism.
Read moreThe Transformative Power of Podcasts Bonni Stachowiak / Vanguard University
Bonni Stachowiak, host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, discusses the captivating nature of podcasts, the difference between podcast and AM/FM listenership, and how her podcast has impacted her pedagogy.
Read moreMedia and the Movement: Activist Community Radio in the American South Joshua Clark Davis / University of Baltimore Seth Kotch / University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
In this column for the Radio Preservation Task Force with the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress Special Issue, Joshua Clark Davis and Seth Kotch discuss their Playbacks Station project in Digital Innovation Lab project at UNC Chapel Hill , which makes hearing and accessing oral histories — such as those of social protest community radio in the South — more feasible.
Read moreWord Warrior Richard Durham: Crusading Radio Scriptwriter Sonja Williams / Howard University
In this column for the Radio Preservation Task Force with the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress Special Issue, Sonja Williams explores the career of Richard Durham, pioneering African American radio scriptwriter and versatile creative force.
Read moreCan We Invent a Field Called “Radio Preservation Studies”? Carolyn Birdsall / University of Amsterdam
In this column for the Radio Preservation Task Force with the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress Special Issue, Carolyn Birdsall makes an argument for the creation of the field of Radio Preservation Studies.
Read moreThe Informal Economy of the Amateur Archive: Collectors as Cultural Intermediaries Shawn VanCour / New York University
In this column for the Radio Preservation Task Force with the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress Special Issue, Shawn VanCour discusses the moral economy of bootlegging and amateur collecting as archiving.
Read more