Moving Sounds
A Cultural History of the Car Radio
Published on 15. January 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
182 pages
978-1-4331-6121-6 (ISBN)
Description
Moving Sounds explores the unique animating symbiosis that develops whenever previously unrelated technologies become intertwined and form a mutually invigorating relationship. When "car" and "radio" became permanently inculcated, it changed how both cars and radio were designed and experienced. Moving Sounds is the first book-length study exploring the relationship between the car and the radio. While much scholarship has been devoted to the general history of radio, radio's unique relationship with the open road has been largely overlooked. The nascent interconnectivity between the early car and radio developers, and what they did to help each other, is another aspect of cultural history that is explored in Moving Sounds.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
28 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4331-6121-6 (9781433161216)
DOI
10.3726/978-1-4539-0985-0
Schweitzer Classification
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Persons
Phylis Johnson, Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Carbondale, is Professor and Director of Journalism and Mass Communications at San Jose State University, and Emeritus Professor of Sound & New Media in the College of Mass Communication & Media Arts at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. She is the outgoing editor of Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology and the past editor of the Journal of Radio and Audio Media. She has authored four books in media studies, numerous research chapters and journal articles, as well as arts reviews and magazine features on gaming, sound and new media, particularly virtual and mixed reality. She has presented internationally and has more than 20 years of professional radio experience.
Ian Punnett, Ph.D., Arizona State University, is a former nationally syndicated radio personality, morning show host, media personality, and author of such books as Toward a Theory of True Crime Narratives. He is the past managing editor of the Journal of Radio and Audio Media.
Content
Figures - Robin Bertolucci: Moving Foreword: Why This Book Matters - Phylis Johnson/Ian Punnett: Preface: How to Use This Book - Phylis Johnson: A Few Words and Acknowledgments - Phylis Johnson/Ian Punnett: Moving Sounds: An Introduction - Phylis Johnson: The Road Trip in the Making - Donna Halper: On Women and Radio: Women in the Driver's Seat - Phylis Johnson: Got Jesus in My Car Radio: Evangelism on the Road - Wafa Unus: From Airplane to "Zeppelin": A Quick Primer on Radio Traffic Reporting - Philip Jeter: Enter the Forties: Riding on Fumes, and Traveling with Talk and Tunes - Lady Dhyana Ziegler: Cadillac Radio - Jenny Johnson/Phylis Johnson: A Tidal Wave of Change: Surfin' the Sixties on the Dashboard - Justin A. Williams: Los Angeles, Popular Music, and the Automobile - Ian Punnett: Car Trek: Morning Drive Radio ... in Space! - Phylis Johnson/Jonathan Pluskota: Blackout: Testing the Airwaves and Hanging on by a Thread - Tim Hendrick: The Silver Age of AM/FM/Tape Car Stereos: An Oral History - Phylis Johnson: Role-Playing on Virtual Highways: Simulations and Soundscapes: What's Inside the Connected Car of Tomorrow? - Jay Needham: Appendix: "Blacktop: The Radio Play" - Contributors - Index.