Radio
Making Waves in Sound
Published on 13. May 2019
240 pages
978-1-78914-099-6 (ISBN)
Description
Radio is a medium of seemingly endless contradictions. Now in its third century of existence, the technology still seems startling modern; despite frequent predictions of its demise, radio continues to evolve and flourish in the age of the internet and social media. This book explores the history of the radio, describing its technological, political and social evolution, and how it emerged from Victorian experimental laboratories to become a near-ubiquitous presence in our lives. The book is shaped by radio's multiple characters and characteristics - radio waves occur in nature, but have been harnessed and moulded by human beings to bridge oceans and reconfigure our experience of space and time.
This is an informative and thought-provoking book for all enthusiasts of an old technology that still has the capacity to enthuse, entertain, entice and enrage today.
Published in association with the Science Museum, London.
This is an informative and thought-provoking book for all enthusiasts of an old technology that still has the capacity to enthuse, entertain, entice and enrage today.
Published in association with the Science Museum, London.
Reviews / Votes
Pinkerton's Radio is wonderful: deeply researched, richly kaleidoscopic, beautifully written. Although Pinkerton has big themes to explore - radio's technical origins, its sometimes contradictory cultural impacts, its extraordinary role in building communities, nations, and empires - he embraces all this without ever losing sight of the deeply human nature of his subject: the people who have made radio what it is, and the complex ways in which the global presence of this extraordinary medium shapes our daily lived experience. The result is both immensely fascinating and vitally important. * David Hendy, Professor of Media and Cultural History, University of Sussex and author of Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
29,87 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78914-099-6 (9781789140996)
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Book
07/2019
Reaktion Books
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Person
Alasdair Pinkerton is a Senior Lecturer in Geography and Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is an avid radio listener and has battled to detect shortwave signals from around the world.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Imprint Page
- Contents
- Introduction: Mythology and Magnetism
- 1: Wireless Worlds
- 2: Making Waves
- 3: Radio and the Nation
- 4: Empires of the Air
- 5: Radio Wars
- 6: Radio and Popular Culture
- References
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Photo Acknowledgements
- Index
