Other library resource(s)
Empire of the air: the men who made radio by Call Number: Streaming videoISBN: 9780780640573Story of radio from 1906-1955 and the three men who made it happen: Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff. It combines archival photographs, newsreels of the period, interviews, and radio soundtrack.
Radio and sound studies from Oxford Bibliiographies Online by Call Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 9780199791286“Radio studies” is a relatively recent term used to signal the explosive growth in scholarship on the medium that has developed as part of a larger interest in sound media and audio culture across the arts and humanities since the 2000s. However, scholarly studies of radio are by no means unique to the new millennium, extending back to the very earliest years of the medium. ...
Internet resource(s)
- Black Radio from AAAMCArchival collections on Black radio from the Archives of the African-American Music and Culture.
- History of Commercial Radio from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)November 2, 2020, marks the 100th anniversary of what is widely recognized as the first commercial radio broadcast when Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh, under the call sign KDKA, broadcast the live returns of the Harding-Cox presidential election.
Over the last century, radio transformed from a cumbersome, experimental medium to a mobile, modern format that ushered in new technologies like television and cellular telephones. Within just four years of the initial KDKA broadcast, 600 stations existed in the U.S. and radio’s rapid popularity contributed to our shared national identity by providing syndicated news, sports, and music. For many, radio was the fastest reliable way to receive updates about national and world events.
In the Library's collections
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Introductory reading(s)
The biographical encyclopedia of American radio by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780415995498The Biographical Encyclopedia of American Radio presents the very best biographies of the Encyclopedia of Radio in a single volume. It includes more than 200 biographical entries on the most important and influential American radio personalities, writers, producers, directors, newscasters, and network executives. ...
Encyclopedia of radio by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781135456481Encyclopedia of Radio includes more than 600 entries covering major countries and regions of the world as well as specific programs and people, networks and organizations, regulation and policies, audience research, and radio's technology. This encyclopedic work will be the first broadly conceived reference source on a medium that is now nearly eighty years old, with essays that provide essential information on the subject as well as comment on the significance of the particular person, organization, or topic being examined.
Historical dictionary of old time radio by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1991.3 .U6 R45 2008ISBN: 9780810857803The term "Old Time Radio" refers to the relatively brief period from 1926, when the National Broadcasting Company first began network broadcasting, until approximately 1960, when television became the dominant communication medium in the United States. During this time, radio was as popular and ubiquitous as television is today. It was amazingly varied in the types of programming it offered; many characters and programs were so popular that virtually everyone was familiar with them. ...
The radio broadcasting industry by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1991.3 .U6 A43 2001ISBN: 9780205307913This book introduces radio from early history, and previews technological considerations. With its emphasis on the business of radio, it helps students understand both the industry and how radio stations attract and retain an audience that could be with other media forms.
Radio programs, 1924-1984: a catalog of over 1800 shows by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1991.9 .T47 1999ISBN: 9780786403516How did Philip Gault become The Whisperer? What radio series was the proving ground for a motion picture? Who owned the Solomon Levy Department Store? The answers to these and many other questions can be found in this encyclopedic reference work to 1802 radio programs broadcast from the years 1924 through 1984. ...
Sounds of change: a history of FM broadcasting in America by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1991.3.U6 S78 2008ISBN: 9780807858882When it first appeared in the 1930s, FM radio was a technological marvel, providing better sound and nearly eliminating the static that plagued AM stations. It took another forty years, however, for FM's popularity to surpass that of AM. In Sounds of Change, Christopher Sterling and Michael Keith detail the history of FM, from its inception to its dominance (for now, at least) of the airwaves. ...
Selected book title(s)
Acoustic properties: radio, narrative, and the new neighborhood of the Americas by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780810135383Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas discovers the prehistory of wireless culture. It examines both the co-evolution of radio and the novel in Argentina, Cuba, and the United States from the early 1930s to the late 1960s, and the various populist political climates in which the emerging medium of radio became the chosen means to produce the voice of the people. ...
American radio networks: a history by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1991.3 .U6 C63 2009ISBN: 9780786441921This history of commercial radio networks in the United States provides a wealth of information on broadcasting from the 1920s to the present. It covers the four transcontinental webs that operated during the pre-television Golden Age, plus local and regional hookups, and the developments that have occurred in the decades since, including the impact of television, the rise of the disc jockey, the rise of talk radio and other specialized formats, implications of satellite technology and consolidation of networks and local stations.
Calling all cars: radio dragnets and the technology of policing by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780816649136Calling All Cars shows how radio played a key role in an emerging form of policing during the turbulent years of the Depression. Until this time popular culture had characterized the gangster as hero, but radio crime dramas worked against this attitude and were ultimately successful in making heroes out of law enforcement officers. ...
Radio program openings and closings, 1931-1972 by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1991.3 .U6 T44 2003ISBN: 9780786414857The openings and closings to radio programs of all types, from comedies (Blondie, The Jack Benny Program, Lum and Abner) to mysteries (Inner Sanctum Mysteries, The Black Chapel) to game shows (Can You Top This?, Truth or Consequences) to serials (Second Husband, Bachelor's Children) to crime dramas (The Falcon, Eno Crime Clues, The Green Hornet, Mr. and Mrs. North) to westerns (Gunsmoke, Wild Bill Hickok, Hawk Larabee) that were aired between 1931 and 1972, are included in this work. ...
Radio reader: essays in the cultural history of radio by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1991.2 .R33 2002ISBN: 9780415928212While cultural historians and media scholars have been looking at television for decades, they have only recently turned their eyes (and ears) to radio. Studies of television rarely acknowledge that many of its forms-soap operas, situation comedies, quiz shows, sportscasts, etc.-all evolved out of the earlier medium. The essays collected here demonstrate that radio set patterns that have effected all forms of media that have followed it, and also look at how it has survived the coming of media that supposedly made it obsolete.
Transmitting the past: historical and cultural perspectives on broadcasting by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780817314538Original essays exploring important developments in radio and television broadcasting. The essays included in this collection represent some of the best cultural and historical research on broadcasting in the U. S. today. Each one concentrates on a particular event in broadcast history--beginning with Marconi's introduction of wireless technology in 1899. Michael Brown examines newspaper reporting in America of Marconi's belief in Martians, stories that effectively rendered Marconi inconsequential to the further development of radio. ...
