The Resource The listener's voice : early radio and the American public, Elena Razlogova
The listener's voice : early radio and the American public, Elena Razlogova
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The item The listener's voice : early radio and the American public, Elena Razlogova represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
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- Summary
- Overview: 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Extent
- 1 online resource (216 pages)
- Contents
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- Preface: 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
- Isbn
- 9781283898690
- Label
- The listener's voice : early radio and the American public
- Title
- The listener's voice
- Title remainder
- early radio and the American public
- Statement of responsibility
- Elena Razlogova
- Subject
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- Electronic books
- HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
- History
- Hörer
- Hörfunk
- Radio audiences
- Radio audiences -- United States -- History
- Beteiligung
- Radio broadcasting -- Social aspects
- Radio broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
- Radio broadcasting -- United States -- History
- USA
- United States
- Radio broadcasting
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Overview: 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
- Cataloging source
- AZU
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1972-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Razlogova, Elena
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- In English
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Radio broadcasting
- Radio broadcasting
- Radio audiences
- HISTORY
- Radio audiences
- Radio broadcasting
- Radio broadcasting
- United States
- Beteiligung
- Hörer
- Hörfunk
- USA
- Label
- The listener's voice : early radio and the American public, Elena Razlogova
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Preface: 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
- Control code
- ocn824522199
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Extent
- 1 online resource (216 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781283898690
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
- 10.9783/9780812208498
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
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- 421119
- 22573/ctt35g29w
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)824522199
- Label
- The listener's voice : early radio and the American public, Elena Razlogova
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Preface: 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
- Control code
- ocn824522199
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Extent
- 1 online resource (216 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781283898690
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
- 10.9783/9780812208498
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 421119
- 22573/ctt35g29w
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)824522199
Subject
- Electronic books
- HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
- History
- Hörer
- Hörfunk
- Radio audiences
- Radio audiences -- United States -- History
- Beteiligung
- Radio broadcasting -- Social aspects
- Radio broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
- Radio broadcasting -- United States -- History
- USA
- United States
- Radio broadcasting
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