Radio Fields : : Anthropology and Wireless Sound in the 21st Century / / Lucas Bessire.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Bessire, Lucas,
• MitwirkendeR: Bessire, Lucas,; Blanton, Anderson,; Fisher, Daniel,; Ginsburg, Faye,; Hinkson, Melinda,; Juris, Jeffrey S.,; Kaplan, Danny,; Kosnick, Kira,; Kunreuther, Laura,; Schulz, Dorothea,; Stephen, Lynn,; Tacchi, Jo,; Vidali-Spitulnik, Debra,
• TeilnehmendeR: Fisher, Daniel.; Ginsburg, Faye.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Radio is the most widespread electronic medium in the world today. As a form of technology that is both durable and relatively cheap, radio remains central to the everyday lives of billions of people around the globe. It is used as a call for prayer in Argentina and Appalachia, to organize political protest in Mexico and Libya, and for wartime communication in Iraq and Afghanistan. In urban centers it is played constantly in shopping malls, waiting rooms, and classrooms. Yet despite its omnipresence, it remains the media form least studied by anthropologists.Radio Fields employs ethnographic methods to reveal the diverse domains in which radio is imagined, deployed, and understood. Drawing on research from six continents, the volume demonstrates how the particular capacities and practices of radio provide singular insight into diverse social worlds, ranging from aboriginal Australia to urban Zambia. Together, the contributors address how radio creates distinct possibilities for rethinking such fundamental concepts as culture, communication, community, and collective agency.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aurality under Democracy -- 3. From the Studio to the Street -- 4. Editing the Nation -- 5. Reconsidering Muslim Authority -- 6. Community and Indigenous Radio in Oaxaca -- 7. The Cultural Politics of Radio -- 8. Frequencies of Transgression -- 9. “Foreign Voices” -- 10. “We Go Above” -- 11. Appalachian Radio Prayers -- 1.2 Radio in the (i)Home -- 13. “A House of Wires upon Wires” -- Radio Fields -- About the Contributors -- index