1320 Pages
    by Routledge

    This new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies, meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of literature, and to provide a map of the area as it has emerged and developed. It is a collection of foundational and the best cutting-edge scholarship in the field.

    Radio is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students of media and cultural studies, as well as those engaged in more specialized radio courses, as a vital one-stop research resource.

    Volume I: Radio Theory and Genres

    Part 1: General

    1. Bertolt Brecht, ‘Radio as a Means of Communication: A Talk on the Function of Radio’, Screen, 20, 3/4, 1979–80, 24–8.

    2. Rudolf Arnheim, ‘Television’, in Radio, trans. M. Ludwig and H. Read (Faber and Faber, 1936), pp. 276–82.

    Part 2: Talk/Speech

    3. Gunther Kress, ‘Language in the Media: The Construction of the Domains of Public and Private’, Media, Culture and Society, 8, 4, 1986, 395–419.

    4. Ian Hutchby, ‘The Organization of Talk on Talk Radio’, in P. Scannell (ed.), Broadcast Talk (Sage, 1991), pp. 119–37.

    5. K. Atkinson and S. Moores, ‘"We All Have Bad Bad Days": Attending to Face in Broadcast Troubles Talk’, Radio Journal, 1, 2, 2003, 129–46.

    6. Terry Flew, ‘A Medium for Mateship: Commercial Talk Radio in Australia’, in A. Crisell (ed.), More than a Music Box: Radio Cultures and Communities in a Multi-Media World (Berghahn, 2004), pp. 229–46.

    7. Martin Montgomery, ‘DJ Talk’, Media, Culture and Society, 8, 4, 1986, 421–40.

    Part 3: News

    8. P. Moss, ‘Words, Words, Words: Radio News Discourses and How They Work, European Journal of Communication, 3, 2, 1988, 207–30.

    9. A. Dunn, ‘Telling the Story: Narrative and Radio News’, Radio Journal, 1, 2, 2003, 113–27.

    10. Martin Montgomery, ‘Broadcast News, the Live "Two-Way" and the Case of Andrew Gilligan’, Media, Culture and Society, 28, 2, 233–59.

    Part 4: Documentary

    11. Virginia M. Madsen, ‘Radio and the Documentary Imagination: Thirty Years of Experiment, Innovation and Revelation’, Radio Journal, 3, 3, 2005, 189–98.

    12. David Hendy, ‘Reality Radio: the Documentary’, in A. Crisell (ed.), More than a Music Box: Radio Cultures and Communities in a Multi-Media World (Berghahn, 2004), pp. 167–88.

    Part 5: Drama

    13. Richard Hughes, ‘The Second Revolution: Literature and Radio’, Virginia Quarterly Review, 23, 1, 1947, 34–43.

    14. D. McWhinnie, ‘The Nature of the Medium: The Experience’, The Art of Radio (Faber and Faber, 1959), pp. 21–44.

    15. Frances Gray, ‘The Nature of Radio Drama’, in P. Lewis (ed.), Radio Drama (Longman, 1981), pp. 48–77.

    16. Andrew Crisell, ‘Better than Magritte: How Drama on the Radio Became Radio Drama’, Journal of Radio Studies, 7, 2, 2000, 464–73.

    17. Erving Goffman, ‘The Theatrical Frame’, in Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience (Harper and Row, 1974), pp. 144–9.

    18. Elke Huwiler, ‘Storytelling by Sound: A Theoretical Frame for Radio Drama Analysis’, Radio Journal, 3, 1, 2005, 45–59.

    Part 6: Comedy

    19. Andrew Crisell, ‘Comedy and Light Entertainment’, Understanding Radio (Routledge, 1994), pp. 164–82.

    20. Andreas Hepp, ‘Radio and Popular Culture in Germany: Radio Culture between Comedy and "Event-isation"’, in A. Crisell (ed.), More than a Music Box: Radio Cultures and Communities in a Multi-Media World (Berghahn, 2004), pp. 189–212.

    Part 7: Music

    21. Frank A. Biocca, ‘The Pursuit of Sound: Radio, Perception and Utopia in the Early Twentieth Century’, Media, Culture and Society, 10, 1, 1988, 61–79.

    22. Paddy Scannell, ‘Sincerity’, Radio, Television and Modern Life (Blackwell, 1996), pp. 58–69.

    23. Jarl A. Ahlkvist, ‘Programming Philosophies and the Rationalization of Music Radio’, Media, Culture and Society, 23, 3, 2001, 339–58.

    Part 8: Avant Garde/Abstract Sound/Soundscapes

    24. Joe Milutis, ‘Radiophonic Ontologies and the Avantgarde’, in Allen S. Weiss (ed.), Experimental Sound and Radio (MIT Press, 2001), pp. 57–72.

    25. Mark E.Cory, ‘Soundplay: The Polyphonous Tradition of German Radio Art’, in D. Kahn and G. Whitehead (eds.), Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde (MIT Press, 1994), pp. 331–71.

    26. Martin Shingler, ‘Some Recurring Features of European Avant-Garde Radio’, Journal of Radio Studies, 7, 1, 2000, 196–212.

    27. Douglas Kahn, ‘Three Receivers’, in Allen S. Weiss (ed.), Experimental Sound and Radio (MIT Press, 2001), pp. 73–80.

    Volume II: History and Institutions

    28. M. Friedewald, ‘The Beginnings of Radio Communication in Germany, 1897–1918’, Journal of Radio Studies, 7, 2, 2000, 441–63.

    29. Seán Street, ‘The Prehistory of Wireless, 1838–1922’, A Concise History of British Radio, 1922-2002 (Tiverton: Kelly Publications, 2002), pp. 11–24.

    30. Paddy Scannell, ‘Public Service Broadcasting: the History of a Concept’, in A. Goodwin and P. Whannel (eds.), Understanding Television (Routledge, 1990), pp. 11–29.

    31. Simon Frith, ‘The Pleasures of the Hearth: the Making of BBC Light Entertainment’, in J. Donald et al. (eds.), Formations of Pleasure (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983), pp. 101–23.

    32. Michele Hilmes, ‘British Quality, American Chaos: Historical Dualisms and What They Leave Out’, Radio Journal, 1, 1, 2003, 13–27.

    33. B. Griffen-Foley, ‘The Birth of a Hybrid: the Shaping of the Australian Radio Industry’, Radio Journal, 2, 3, 2004, 153–69.

    34. V. Camporesi, ‘The BBC and American Broadcasting, 1922–55’, Media, Culture and Society, 16, 4, 1994, 625–39.

    35. David Cardiff, ‘The Serious and the Popular: Aspects of the Evolution of Style in the Radio Talk, 1928–1939, Media, Culture and Society, 2, 1, 1980, 29–47.

    36. Michele Hilmes, ‘Front Line Family: "Women’s Culture" Comes to the BBC’, Media, Culture and Society, 29, 1, 2007, 5–29.

    37. David Cardiff and Paddy Scannell, ‘Radio in World War II’, Open University, U203, Popular Culture, Block 2, Unit 8, 1981, pp. 34–41 and 60–78.

    38. P. Long, ‘British Radio and the Politics of Culture in Post-War Britain: The Work of Charles Parker’, Radio Journal, 2, 3, 2004, 131–52.

    39. F. Gillard, ‘Sound Radio in the Television Age’, BBC Lunch-time Lectures, 2nd series, No. 6, 11 Mar. 1964.

    40. Ian Trethowan, ‘Radio in the Seventies’, BBC Lunch-time Lectures, 8th series, No. 4, 5 Mar. 1970.

    41. Stuart Hall, ‘A World at One with Itself’, New Society, 403 (18 June 1970), pp. 1056–8.

    42. K. Kumar, ‘Holding the Middle Ground: The BBC, the Public and the Professional Broadcaster’, in J. Curran, M. Gurevitch, and J. Woollacott (eds.), Mass Communication and Society (Arnold, 1977), pp. 231–48.

    43. W. Barlow, ‘Community Radio in the US: The Struggle for a Democratic Medium’, Media, Culture and Society, 10, 1, 1988, 81–105.

    44. N. Morris, ‘US Voices on UK Radio’, European Journal of Communication, 14, 1, 1999, 37–59.

    45. J. Abramsky, ‘Sound Matters: Soundtrack for the UK—How Did We Get Here?’, Lecture, 30 Jan. 2002, Green College, Oxford University.

    46. J. Abramsky, ‘Bi-Media: A Strategy for Radio?’, Lecture, 6 Feb. 2002, Green College, Oxford University.

    Volume III: Audiences, Identities, and Communities; AND Technological Developments

    Part 9: Audiences, Identities, and Communities

    47. Kate Lacey, ‘Towards a Periodization of Listening: Radio and Modern Life’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 3, 2, 2000, 279–88.

    48. S. Moores, ‘"The Box on the Dresser": Memories of Early Radio and Everyday Life’, Media, Culture and Society, 10, 1, 1988, 23–40.

    49. R. Butsch, ‘Crystal Sets and Scarf Pin Radios: Gender, Technology and the Construction of American Radio Listening in the 1920s’, Media, Culture and Society, 20, 4, 1998, 557–72.

    50. Robert Silvey, ‘The Intelligibility of Broadcast Talks’, in P. Davison, R. Meyersohn, and E. Shils (eds.), Literary Taste, Culture and Mass Communication (Chadwyck-Healey, 1978), Vol. 9 (‘Uses of Literacy; Media’), pp. 281–6.

    51. S. Barnard, ‘Mother’s Little Helper: Programmes, Personalities and the Working Day’, On the Radio: Music Radio in Britain (Open University, 1989), pp. 135–50.

    52. Alan Beck, ‘You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away: Gay Radio Past and Present’, in A. Crisell (ed.), More than a Music Box: Radio Cultures and Communities in a Multi-Media World (Berghahn, 2004), pp. 127–43.

    53. K. Ross, ‘All Ears: Radio, Reception and Discourses of Disability’, Media, Culture and Society, 23, 4, 2001, 419–37.

    54. Jean Claude Domenget, ‘Day by Day, As Time Goes By: the Radio-Listening Habits of the Retired’, Radio Journal, 1, 1, 2003, 47-61.

    55. Valerie Alia, ‘Indigenous Radio in Canada’, in A. Crisell (ed.), More than a Music Box: Radio Cultures and Communities in a Multi-Media World (Berghahn, 2004), pp. 77–94.

    56. Helen Molnar, ‘National Public Service Radio in the South Pacific: A Community Loudspeaker’, in A. Crisell (ed.), More than a Music Box: Radio Cultures and Communities in a Multi-Media World (Berghahn, 2004), pp. 109–26.

    57. Kevin Howley, ‘Radiocracy Rulz! Microradio as Electronic Activism’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 3, 2, 2000, 256–67.

    58. Jo Tacchi, ‘Gender, Fantasy and Radio Consumption: An Ethnographic Case Study’, in C. Mitchell (ed.) Women and Radio: Airing Differences (Routledge, 2000), pp. 152–66.

    59. Guy Starkey, ‘Radio Audience Research: Challenging the "Gold Standard"’, Cultural Trends, 45, 2003, 45–68.

    60. S. Niblock and D. Machin, ‘News Values for Consumer Groups: The Case of Independent Radio News, London, UK’, Journalism, 8, 2, 2007, 184–204.

    Part 10: Technological Developments

    61. Jo Tacchi, ‘The Need for Radio Theory in the Digital Age’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 3, 2, pp. 289–98.

    62. M. Spinelli, ‘Rhetorical Figures and the Digital Editing of Radio Speech’, Convergence, 12, 2, 2006, 199–212.

    63. Richard Rudin, ‘The Development of DAB Digital Radio in the UK: the Battle for Control of a New Technology in an Old Medium’, Convergence, 12, 2, 2006, 163–78.

    64. David A. Black, ‘Internet Radio: A Case Study in Medium Specificity’, Media, Culture and Society, 23, 3, 2001, 397–408.

    65. M. Ala-Fossi, ‘Digital Reflections of Finnish Speech Journalism: YLE Radio Peili’, in A. Crisell (ed.), More than a Music Box: Radio Cultures and Communities in a Multi-Media World (Berghahn, 2004), pp. 57–74.

    66. David Hendy, ‘A Political Economy of Radio in the Digital Age’, Journal of Radio Studies, 7, 1, 2000, 213–34.

    67. Hans-Ullrich Muhlenfeld, ‘Mass Communication as Participation: Web-Radio in Germany: Legal Hazards and its Contribution to an Alternative Way of Mass Communication’, European Journal of Communication, 17, 1, 2002, pp. 103–13.

    68. Tim Wall, ‘The Political Economy of Internet Music Radio’, Radio Journal, 2, 1, 2004, 27–44.

    69. Richard Berry, ‘Will the iPod Kill the Radio Star? Profiling Podcasting as Radio’, Convergence, 12, 2, 2006, 143–62.

    70. N. Neumark, ‘Different Spaces, Different Times: Exploring Possibilities for Cross-Platform "Radio"’, Convergence, 12, 2, 2006, 213–24.

    Biography

    Andrew Crisell is Professor of Broadcasting Studies at the University of Sunderland and a member of the editorial boards of the Radio Journal and the Journal of Media Business Studies. His previous publications include:

    Understanding Radio, 2nd edn. (London: Routledge, 1994)

    An Introductory History of British Broadcasting, 2nd edn. (London: Routledge, 2002)

    (editor) More than a Music Box: Radio Cultures and Communities in a Multi Media World (Oxford: Berghahn, 2004).

    A Study of Modern Television: Thinking Inside the Box (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006).

    (with Guy Starkey) Radio Journalism (London: Sage, forthcoming 2008).