The Listener's Voice : : Early Radio and the American Public / / Elena Razlogova.
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-out laborers, small-town h...
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Razlogova, Elena, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Listener's Voice : Early Radio and the American Public / Elena Razlogova. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource (224 p.) : 14 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface. The Moral Economy of American Broadcasting -- 1. At Ringside -- 2. Jumping the Waves -- 3. Voice of the Listener -- 4. Listeners Write the Scripts -- 5. Measuring Culture -- 6. Gang Busters -- 7. Vox Jox -- Epilogue -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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-out laborers, small-town housewives, black government clerks, and Mexican farmers-participated in the formation of American radio, its genres, and its operations.Before the advent of sophisticated marketing research, radio producers largely relied on listeners' phone calls, telegrams, and letters to understand their audiences. Mining this rich archive, historian Elena Razlogova meticulously recreates the world of fans who undermined centralized broadcasting at each creative turn in radio history. Radio outlaws, from the earliest squatter stations and radio tube bootleggers to postwar "payola-hungry" rhythm and blues DJs, provided a crucial source of innovation for the medium. Engineers bent patent regulations. Network writers negotiated with devotees. Program managers invited high school students to spin records. Taken together, these and other practices embodied a participatory ethic that listeners articulated when they confronted national corporate networks and the formulaic ratings system that developed.Using radio as a lens to examine a moral economy that Americans have imagined for their nation, The Listener's Voice demonstrates that tenets of cooperation and reciprocity embedded in today's free software, open access, and filesharing activities apply to earlier instances of cultural production in American history, especially at times when new media have emerged. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) History 20th Century United States. Radio audiences -- United States -- History. Radio audiences United States History. Radio broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States -- History. Radio broadcasting -- United States -- History. Radio broadcasting Social aspects United States History. Radio broadcasting Social aspects. Radio broadcasting United States History. Media Studies. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. bisacsh American History. American Studies. Film Studies. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History 9783110413496 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812243208 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208498 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812208498 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812208498/original |
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