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Hugh Richard Slotten - Radio´s Hidden Voice: The Origins of Public Broadcasting in the United States - 9780252034473 - V9780252034473
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Radio´s Hidden Voice: The Origins of Public Broadcasting in the United States

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Description for Radio´s Hidden Voice: The Origins of Public Broadcasting in the United States Hardback. A detailed study of American public radio's early history Series: The History of Communication. Num Pages: 344 pages, 32 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: GTC; HBJK; KNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.

Since the 1960s, the existence of a largely noncommercial public broadcasting system has become a familiar feature of American cultural and social life. Most histories of broadcasting, however, overlook public radio's early development during the 1920s and 1930s by focusing on the mainstream, hegemonic practices of large commercial stations connected to networks. This focus on the development of the "American System" of commercial broadcasting as a master narrative has obscured the historical importance of alternative means of radio broadcasting and their complex interaction with dominant trends.  

Employing extensive research from archives across the United States, Hugh Richard Slotten examines the ... Read more

Radio stations operated by institutions of higher education were especially significant because they helped pioneer the idea and practice of broadcasting in the United States. Faculty members in physics, electrical engineering, and other technical fields possessed the fundamental scientific knowledge and practical engineering innovation necessary for radio's propagation. Further, the established traditions of public service at universities, especially land-grant colleges in the Midwest, provided a robust framework for offering a publicly available, noncommercial alternative to the emerging commercial broadcast system.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Series
The History of Communication
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252034473
SKU
V9780252034473
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About Hugh Richard Slotten
Hugh Richard Slotten is a senior lecturer at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and the author of Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920-1960 and Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science.

Reviews for Radio´s Hidden Voice: The Origins of Public Broadcasting in the United States
Winner of the Best Book in Journalism and Mass Communication given by the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), 2010. "Undergirding this discussion with prodigious research in primary sources, Slotten provides an ambitious history of public broadcasting in the US. . . . Recommended."
Choice "This is a masterful work.  It is ... Read more

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