Compromising Technologies: Government, the Radio Hobby, and the Discourse of Catastrophe in the Twentieth Century

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Communities of the Air: Introducing the Radio World 1
5. Radio Technology across the Twentieth Century
6. AT&T Invents Public Access Broadcasting in 1923: A Foreclosed Model for American Radio 39
7. Compromising Technologies: Government, the Radio Hobby, and the Discourse of Catastrophe in the Twentieth Century 63
8. A Promise Diminished: The Politics of Low- Power Radio 76
9. Radio Cultures
10. Caribbean Voices on the Air: Radio, Poetry, and Nationalism in the Anglophone Caribbean 93
11. The Forgotten Fifteen Million: Black Radio, Radicalism, and the Construction of the ‘‘Negro Market’’ 109
12. Packaged Alternatives: The Incorporation and Gendering of ‘‘Alternative’’ Radio 134
13. Science Literacies: The Mandate and Complicity of Popular Science on the Radio 164
14. Not Hearing Poetry on Public Radio 195
15. Radio Ideologies
16. In the Radio Way: Elizabeth II, the Female Voice-Over, and the Radio’s Imperial Effects 217
17. If the Country’s Going Gracie, So Can You’’: Gender Representation in Gracie Allen’s Radio Comedy 237
18. ‘‘Are You Lonesome Tonight?’’: Gendered Address in The Lonesome Gal and The Continental 251
19. Wireless Possibilities, Posthuman Possibilities: Brain Radio, Community Radio, Radio Lazarus 275
20. Contributors 305
21. Index 307