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Radio reader : essays in the cultural history of radio / edited by Michele Hilmes and Jason Loviglio. [0415928206] New York : Routledge, 2002.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN1991.2 .R33 2002
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN1991.2 .R33 2002
Excellent chapter 4 (pp. 63-88) Derek Vaillant, "Your Voice Cam in Last Night....but I thought it Sounded a Little Scared": Rural Radio Listening and "Talking Back" during the Progressive Era in Wisconisn, 1920-1932. University-run radio station wanted to program classical music, farmers (for whom the station was largely for) wanted to hear their (fiddler) music.
belongs to uncanniness of canned music project
tagged highbrow_lowbrow history radio technology by dkelly ...and 1 other person ...on 14-JUN-06
tagged highbrow_lowbrow history radio technology by dkelly ...and 1 other person ...on 14-JUN-06
orton,w . "the level of thirteen-year-olds" The Atlantic [0276-9077] (Jan, 1931). 1-10.
Orton, William. "The Level of Thirteen-year-olds" Atlantic monthly [0004-6795] (Jan, 1931). 1-10.
"The wholesale exploitation of sound in the various perversions of money getting is a far worse thing than the desecration of the countryside by billboards. It is at once more intimate and more degrading." cited in Radio Reader p. 50. See also Ortner's America in Search of Culture 1933.