Despite the growth of digital media, traditional FM radio airplay still remains the essential way for musicians to achieve commercial success. Climbing the Charts examines how songs rise, or fail to rise, up the radio airplay charts. Looking at the relationships between record l…
Overview: During the Jazz Age and Great Depression, radio broadcasters did not conjure their listening public with a throw of a switch; the public had a hand in its own making. The Listener's Voice describes how a diverse array of Americans-boxing fans, radio amateurs, down-and-…
Overview: During the Jazz Age and Great Depression, radio broadcasters did not conjure their listening public with a throw of a switch; the public had a hand in its own making. The Listener's Voice describes how a diverse array of Americans-boxing fans, radio amateurs, down-and-…
Immaterial culture engages with texts that are now largely unread and dismissed as trivial or dubious: the vast body of plays - thrillers, narrative poetry, comedy sketches, documentaries and adaptations of literature and drama - that aired on American radio.
Interviews with veterans of the golden age of radio show that radio, free of the demands of the camera, was (and is) the ideal medium for the spontaneity and improvization that create a special kind of magic.
Interviews with veterans of the golden age of radio show that radio, free of the demands of the camera, was (and is) the ideal medium for the spontaneity and improvization that create a special kind of magic.
