Radio Cultures: The Sound Medium in American Life.
New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2008.
Radio Cultures examines the manifold ways in which
radio has influenced the nation's social and cultural environment since its
inception nearly a century ago. Written by leading scholars in the field, chapters
address a wide range of topics, including how this powerful medium has impacted
and affected non-mainstream segments of the population throughout its history
and how these repressed and neglected groups have employed radio to counter
and overcome discrimination and bias. The use of the audio medium for political,
economic, and religious purposes is comprehensively probed and analyzed in
this insightful and innovative volume.