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Points on the Dial: Golden Age Radio beyond the Networks Paperback - 2010

by Alexander Russo


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The golden age of radio is often recalled as a time when the medium unified the nation, when families gathered around the radios in homes across the country to listen to live, commercially sponsored network broadcasts. In Points on the Dial, Alexander Russo revises our understanding of radio's past by revealing the hidden histories of production, distribution, and reception practices during this era, which extended from the 1920s into the 1950s. Russo brings to light a tiered broadcasting system with intermingling but distinct national, regional, and local programming forms, sponsorship patterns, and methods of program distribution. Examining a wide range of practices, including regional networking, sound-on-disc transcription, the use of station representatives, spot advertising, and programming aimed at homes with several radios, he not only recasts our understanding of the relationship between national networks and local stations but also charts the development of new ways of listening--often distractedly rather than attentively--that set the stage for radio in the second half of the twentieth century.

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"Offering fascinating arguments based on a wealth of excellent research, Alexander Russo fills in the history of radio broadcasting in the United States. He reveals the diversity of practices obscured until now by scholars' focus on the national networks."--Michele Hilmes, author of "Radio Voices: American Broadcasting, 1922-1952"

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  • Title Points on the Dial: Golden Age Radio beyond the Networks
  • Author Alexander Russo
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 292
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press, Durham
  • Date 2010-02-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780822345329 / 0822345323
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.75 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.91 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Sociological
  • Library of Congress subjects Radio broadcasting - United States - History, Radio programs - Social aspects - United
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009037179
  • Dewey Decimal Code 384.544

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Citations

  • Choice, 07/01/2010, Page 0
  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 03/05/2010, Page 16

About the author

Alexander Russo is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at The Catholic University of America.

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