Points on the dial : golden age radio beyond the networks

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    • Russo, Alexander

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Points on the dial : golden age radio beyond the networks

Alexander Russo

Duke University Press, 2010

  • : pbk

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"An earlier version of chapter 3 first appeared as "Defensive transcriptions: radio networks, sound-on-disc recording, and the meaning of live broadcasting," Velvet Light Trap 54 (Fall 2004): 4/17."--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-255) and index

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内容説明

The golden age of radio is often recalled as a time when the medium unified the nation, when families gathered around the radios in homes across the country to listen to live, commercially sponsored network broadcasts. In Points on the Dial, Alexander Russo revises our understanding of radio's past by revealing the hidden histories of production, distribution, and reception practices during this era, which extended from the 1920s into the 1950s. Russo brings to light a tiered broadcasting system with intermingling but distinct national, regional, and local programming forms, sponsorship patterns, and methods of program distribution. Examining a wide range of practices, including regional networking, sound-on-disc transcription, the use of station representatives, spot advertising, and programming aimed at homes with several radios, he not only recasts our understanding of the relationship between national networks and local stations but also charts the development of new ways of listening-often distractedly rather than attentively-that set the stage for radio in the second half of the twentieth century.

目次

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Narratives of Radio's Geographies 1 1. The Value of a Name: Defining and Redefining National Network Radio 17 2. "The Lord is my Shepard, I shall not want": Regional Networks as Sites of Community and Conflict 47 3. Brought to You via Electrical Transcription: Sound-in-Disc Recording and the Perceptual Aesthetics of Radio Distribution Technologies 77 4. On the Spot: The Spatial and Temporal Flow of Spot Broadcasting 115 5. People with Money and Go: Locating Attention in the Human Geography of Radio Reception 151 Conclusion: Open-End Game: The Legacy of Spots, Representatives, and Transcriptions 184 Notes 191 Bibliography 241 Index 257

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