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Making Radio: Early Radio Production and the Rise of Modern Sound Culture
Making Radio: Early Radio Production and the Rise of Modern Sound Culture
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The opening decades of the twentieth century witnessed a profound transformation in the history of modern sound media, with workers in U.S. film, radio, and record industries developing pioneering production methods and performance styles tailored to emerging technologies of electric sound
reproduction that would redefine dominant forms and experiences of popular audio entertainment. Focusing on broadcasting's initial expansion during the 1920s, Making Radio explores the forms of creative labor pursued for the medium in the period prior to the better-known network era, assessing their
role in shaping radio's identity and identifying affinities with parallel practices pursued for conversion-era film and phonography. Tracing programming forms adopted by early radio writers and programmers, production techniques developed by studio engineers, and performance styles cultivated by
on-air talent, it shows how radio workers negotiated a series of broader industrial and cultural pressures to establish best practices for their medium that reshaped popular forms of music, drama, and public oratory and laid the foundation for a new era of electric sound entertainment.
Author: Shawn Vancour
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/09/2018
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780190497118
Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2018
reproduction that would redefine dominant forms and experiences of popular audio entertainment. Focusing on broadcasting's initial expansion during the 1920s, Making Radio explores the forms of creative labor pursued for the medium in the period prior to the better-known network era, assessing their
role in shaping radio's identity and identifying affinities with parallel practices pursued for conversion-era film and phonography. Tracing programming forms adopted by early radio writers and programmers, production techniques developed by studio engineers, and performance styles cultivated by
on-air talent, it shows how radio workers negotiated a series of broader industrial and cultural pressures to establish best practices for their medium that reshaped popular forms of music, drama, and public oratory and laid the foundation for a new era of electric sound entertainment.
Author: Shawn Vancour
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/09/2018
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780190497118
Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2018
About the Author
Shawn VanCour is Assistant Professor of Media Archival Studies in UCLA's Department of Information Studies. His research includes work on history of media technologies, media industries and labor practices, media archiving and preservation, and music and sound studies.
