American Radio Art and the Documentary Imagination: Breakaway and Castaway Emissions from Broadcast to Podcast

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Abstract

This chapter explores radio art in America as aligned with the documentary imagination as this evolved in sound broadcasting and electronic media. The chapter traces lines of development connecting USA radio, the audio arts and audio documentary production to other international broadcasting sites, and from the golden age of radio to the podcasting revolution. The emphasis is on the USA but the chapter opens this rich American history in sound media and radio to other influences and sites of complex interaction. It asks questions concerning the nature of radio expression and art, and provides an account of documentary creation as an art form and field for experiment over decades of activity in the USA.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationListen Up!
Subtitle of host publicationRadio Art in the USA
EditorsAnne Thurmann-Jajes, Regine Beyer
Place of PublicationBerlin
PublisherTranscript Verlag
Pages213-247
Number of pages34
ISBN (Electronic)9783839446256
ISBN (Print)9783837646252
Publication statusAccepted/In press - 27 Aug 2024

Publication series

NameSchriftenreihe für Künstlerpublikationen
PublisherTranscript Verlag
Volume10
ISSN (Print)837646252
ISSN (Electronic)839446256

Keywords

  • radio art
  • Fine Arts
  • Sound Art
  • American Art
  • media aesthetics
  • Electronic Music
  • Sound
  • Media Art
  • Art, Media, America
  • audio documentary
  • radio documentary
  • podcasting history
  • Australian radio documentary and audio arts
  • radio history

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