Communities of the air : radio century, radio culture / edited by Susan Merrill Squier. - viii, 318 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Communities of the Air: Introducing the Radio World / AT&T Invents Public Access Broadcasting in 1923: A Foreclosed Model for American Radio / Compromising Technologies: Government, the Radio Hobby, and the Discourse of Catastrophe in the Twentieth Century / A Promise Diminished: The Politics of Low-Power Radio / Caribbean Voices on the Air: Radio, Poetry, and Nationalism in the Anglophone Caribbean / The Forgotten Fifteen Million: Black Radio, Radicalism, and the Construction of the "Negro Market" / Packaged Alternatives: The Incorporation and Gendering of "Alternative" Radio / Science Literacies: The Mandate and Complicity of Popular Science on the Radio / Not Hearing Poetry on Public Radio / In the Radio Way: Elizabeth II, the Female Voice-Over, and the Radio's Imperial Effects / "If the Country's Going Gracie, So Can You": Gender Representation in Gracie Allen's Radio Comedy / "Are You Lonesome Tonight?": Gendered Address in The Lonesome Gal and The Continental / Wireless Possibilities, Posthuman Possibilities: Brain Radio, Community Radio, Radio Lazarus / Susan M. Squier -- Steven Wurtzler -- Bruce Campbell -- Nina Huntemann -- Laurence A. Breiner -- Kathy M. Newman -- Lauren M. E. Goodlad -- Donald Ulin -- Martin Spinelli -- Adrienne Munich -- Leah Lowe -- Mary Desjardins and Mark Williams -- Susan M. Squier.

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Radio broadcasting--Social aspects

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