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The Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies

Edited By Mia Lindgren, Jason Loviglio Copyright 2022
    502 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    502 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge
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    This comprehensive companion is a much-needed reference source for the expanding field of radio, audio, and podcast study, taking readers through a diverse range of essays examining the core questions and key debates surrounding radio practices, technologies, industries, policies, resources, histories, and relationships with audiences.

    Drawing together original essays from well-established and emerging scholars to conceptualize this multidisciplinary field, this book’s global perspective acknowledges radio’s enduring affinity with the local, historical relationship to the national, and its unpredictably transnational reach. In its capacious understanding of what constitutes radio, this collection also recognizes the latent time-and-space shifting possibilities of radio broadcasting, and of the myriad ways for audio to come to us 'live.' Chapters on terrestrial radio mingle with studies of podcasts and streaming audio, emphasizing continuities and innovations in form and content, delivery and reception, production cultures and aesthetics, reminding us that neither 'radio' nor 'podcasting' should be approached as static objects of analysis but rather as mutually constituting cultural forms.

    This cutting-edge and vibrant companion provides a rich resource for scholars and students of history, art theory, industry studies, journalism, media and communication, cultural studies, feminist analysis, and postcolonial studies.

    Chapter 42 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

    Introduction

    Part I Understanding Radio and Podcasting

    1. Michele Hilmes

      2. But Is It Radio? New Forms and Voices in the Audio Private Sphere

    2. Tiziano Bonini　

      3. Podcasting as a Hybrid Cultural Form Between Old and New Media

    3. Kate Lacey　

      4. Listening Back: Materiality, Mediatization, and Method in Radio History　

    4. Susan J. Douglas　

      5. Radio and Sound Studies: How We Got Here　

    5. Britta Jorgensen and Mia Lindgren

      6. 'Pause and reflect' – practice-as-research methods in radio and podcast studies

    6. Josh Shepperd

      7. Understanding Radio Archives: Coalitional Historiography and Sound Memory Work

      Part II Histories

    7. David Goodman

      8. Radio and Democratic Citizenship

    8. Len Kuffert　

      9. For anyone who’s someone: early radio’s democratic promise

    9. Matt Mollgaard and Rufus McEwan

      10. Radio in New Zealand: The Neoliberal Experiment Comes of Age

    10. Anne F. MacLennan

      11. Forming Networks: National Radio Networks − Public, State, and Commercial

    11. Thokozani N. Mhlambi

      12. Listening to Radio in South Africa, 1920s-1994

    12. Nelson Ribeiro　

      13. Transborder Broadcasting: Warfare, Propaganda, and Public Diplomacy on the Airwaves

    13. Derek W. Vaillant　

      14. Reactionary Conservatism and Legacies of Struggle in US Radio History

    14. Cynthia B. Meyers

      15. When Big Business was in Show Business: US Radio Before Television

    15. Christine Ehrick　

      16. Ethereal Gender: Thoughts on the History of Radio and Women’s Voices

    16. Jennifer Hyland Wang　

      17. ‘When She Can Not Be Seen’: Constructing the Commercial Accent of Women’s Voices in Clara, Lu ‘n’ Em

      Part III Formats, Genres, and Aesthetics

    17. Bill Kirkpatrick　

      18. Radio Fever? The Health Roots of Early Radio

    18. Neil Verma

      19. Nobody Knows Anything: Recessive Epistemologies in True Crime Podcasting

    19. Kathleen Battles and Amanda Keeler

      20. True Crime and Audio Media

    20. Alexander T. Russo　

      21. Radio Formats: Sound Rules for Addressing the Narrowcast Audience Commodity

    21. Kate Murphy

      22. BBC Woman’s Hour　

    22. Kathleen Battles and Joy Elizabeth Hayes　

      23. The Enduring Significance of The War of the Worlds as Broadcast Event

    23. Jason Loviglio　

      24. The Traffic in Feelings: The Car-Radio Assemblage

    24. Lyn Gallacher　

      25. Radio features dead or alive?

    25. Siobhan McHugh

      26. From Phoebe’s Fall to The Last Voyage of the Pong Su: How an Australian Newspaper Made Hit Narrative Podcasts

    26. Toni Sellas and Maria Gutierrez

      27. Podcasting and Journalism in the Spanish-Speaking World

    27. Alyn M. Euritt

      28. Podcasting's Transmedia Liveness

    28. Leslie McMurtry

      29. Transgressing Boundary Rituals on Radio

      　Part IV Radio and Podcast Publics

    29. Vinod Pavarala, Kanchan K. Malik, and Aniruddha Jena

      30. Community Radio as Development Radio: A Critical Analysis of Third-Sector Radio in South Asia　

    30. Bridget Backhaus and Jo Tacchi

      31. Uneasy allies: community radio and communication for social change　

    31. Alejandra Bronfman

      32. Radio, Decolonization, and Decoloniality in the Caribbean

    32. Emma Heywood

      33. Radio's role in empowering women in conflict-affected areas　

    33. Ganiyat Tijani-Adenle

      34. Women FM (W.FM): The Women-focused Radio Station Amplifying the Voices of Nigerian Women

    34. James Gabrillo　

      35. Radyo Tanudan: Sonic Collectivities in a Philippine Village　

    35. Dolores Inés Casillas

      36. Listening to Don Cheto on Contemporary US Spanish-language Radio

    36. Neroli Price

      37. Can True Crime Podcasts Make Structural Violence Audible?

    37. Heather Anderson, Charlotte Bedford, and Urszula Doliwa

      38. The evolving genre of Prisoner Radio: An international examination

      Part V Markets, Platforms, and Technologies

    38. Caroline Mitchell and Peter Lewis

      39. 'This is so cool - radio at my fingertips!' Young people’s responses to Radio Garden

    39. Zita Joyce

      40. Taping Radio: Recording Memories

    40. Richard Berry

      41. What is a podcast? Mapping the technical, cultural, and sonic boundaries between radio and podcasting

    41. Dario Llinares

      42. ‘Podcast Studies’ and its Techno-Social Discourses

    42. Marta Perrotta

      43. From Niche to Mainstream: The Emergence of a Podcasting Culture and Market in the Italian Radio Context

    43. J. Ignacio Gallego

      44. The New Role of Music Radio Formats: The Platformization of the Radio System?

    44. Andreas Lenander Ægidius

      45. How Radio is Remediated in Streaming: The Case of Radio in Spotify

    45. Meng Wei, Salvatore Scifo, and Xu Yuanchun

      46. Artificial Intelligence and Radio Broadcasting: Opportunities and Challenges in the Chinese Context

    46. Andy Kelleher Stuhl

    Radio Automation: Sonic Control in American Broadcasting

    Biography

    Mia Lindgren is Professor of Media at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Her research examines forms of audio storytelling, with attention to podcast and health journalism. She combines practice-based research, applied through audio productions, with traditional scholarship.

    Jason Loviglio is Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at The University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. He has written and edited books and articles on radio and podcasting.

    Mia Lindgren and Jason Loviglio co-edit Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media.

    "Radio's long history shines in this Routledge volume along with a spotlight on successes and new technology challenges for podcasting. The 46 chapters are complementary to one another and it's a great collection that will be cherished by historians and academics." -Kim Fox, American University in Cairo, Egypt.

    "A rich, kaleidoscopic view into contemporary studies on all forms of audio media." Marko Ala-Fossi, Tampere University, Finland.


    "A     timely, necessary, and deep examination of audio history, genres, formats, audiences, markets, platforms, and technology. - Emma Rodero, Pompeu　Fabra University, Spain.

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