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

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

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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...

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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
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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

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