Radio in the Global AgeISBN: 978-0-7456-2069-5
Paperback
280 pages
October 2000, Polity
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Individual chapters explore the changing structures of the radio
industry, the way programmes are produced, the act of listening and
the construction of audiences, the different meanings attached to
programmes, and the cultural impact of radio across the globe.
David Hendy portrays a medium of extraordinary contradictions: a
cheap and accessible means of communication, but also one
increasingly dominated by rigid formats and multinational
companies; a highly 'intimate' medium, but one capable of building
large communities of listeners scattered across huge spaces; a
force for nourishing regional identity, but also a pervasive
broadcaster of globalized music products; a 'stimulus to the
imagination', but a purveyor of the banal and of the routine.
Drawing on recent research from as far afield as Africa,
Australasia and Latin America, as well as from the UK and US, the
book aims to explore and to explain these paradoxes - and, in the
process, to offer an imaginative reworking of Marshall McLuhan's
famous dictum that radio is one of the world's 'hot' media.
Radio in the Global Age is an invaluable text for undergraduates and researchers in media studies, communication studies, journalism, cultural studies, and musicology. It will also be of interest to practitioners and policy-makers in the radio industry.