Description: Communities of the Air by Susan Merrill Squier Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description Affirms the importance of invention of radio and explores how radio creates sets of overlapping communities of the air, including those who study and theorize radio as a technological, social, cultural, and historical phenomenon. This work explores radios role in shaping Anglo-American culture and society since the early twentieth century. Publisher Description This work analyzes radio as both a cultural and material production, it explores radios powerful role in shaping Anglo-American culture and society since the early 20th century. Scholars and radio writers, producers, and critics look at the many ways radio generates multiple communities over the air - from elite to popular, dominant to resistant, canonical to transgressive. The contributors approach radio not only in its own right, but also as a set of practices - both technological and social - illuminating broader issues such as race relations, gender politics, and the construction of regional and national identities. Drawing on the perspectives of literary and cultural studies, science studies and feminist theory, radio history, and the new field of radio studies, these essays consider the development of radio as technology: how it was modeled on the telephone, early conflicts between for-profit and public uses of radio, and amateur radio (HAMS), local programming, and low-power radio.Some pieces discuss how radio gives voice to different cultural groups, focusing on the BBC and poetry programming in the West Indies, black radio, the history of alternative radio since the 1970s, and science and contemporary arts programming. Others look at radios influence on gender through examinations of Queen Elizabeths wartime broadcasts, Gracie Allens comedy, and programming geared toward women. Together the contributors demonstrate how attention to the multitudinous ways radio is utilized and understood reveals the dynamic formation and transformation of communities within the larger society. Author Biography Susan Merrill Squier is Brill Professor of Womens Studies and English at Pennsylvania State University. She is author of Babies in Bottles: Twentieth-Century Visions of Reproductive Technology and coeditor of Playing Dolly: Technocultural Formations, Fantasies, and Fictions of Assisted Reproduction and Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation. Details ISBN 0822330954 ISBN-13 9780822330950 Title Communities of the Air Author Susan Merrill Squier Format Paperback Year 2003 Pages 336 Publisher Duke University Press GE_Item_ID:161666291; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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Book Title: Communities of the Air : Radio Century, Radio Culture
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: Media Studies, Radio / General
Publication Year: 2003
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Genre: Performing Arts, Social Science
Item Weight: 19.2 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Susan Merrill Squier
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback