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Making Radio: Early Radio Production and the Rise of Modern Sound Culture Audiobook, by Shawn VanCour Play Audiobook Sample

Making Radio: Early Radio Production and the Rise of Modern Sound Culture Audiobook

Making Radio: Early Radio Production and the Rise of Modern Sound Culture Audiobook, by Shawn VanCour Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Timothy Andrés Pabon Publisher: Tantor Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: December 2018 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781977330512

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

12

Longest Chapter Length:

52:15 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

21:47 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

41:56 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

The opening decades of the twentieth century witnessed a profound transformation in the history of modern sound media, with workers in U.S. film, radio, and record industries developing pioneering production methods and performance styles tailored to emerging technologies of electric sound reproduction that would redefine dominant forms and experiences of popular audio entertainment. Focusing on broadcasting's initial expansion during the 1920s, Making Radio explores the forms of creative labor pursued for the medium in the period prior to the better-known network era, assessing their role in shaping radio's identity and identifying affinities with parallel practices pursued for conversion-era film and phonography. Tracing programming forms adopted by early radio writers and programmers, production techniques developed by studio engineers, and performance styles cultivated by on-air talent, it shows how radio workers negotiated a series of broader industrial and cultural pressures to establish best practices for their medium that reshaped popular forms of music, drama, and public oratory and laid the foundation for a new era of electric sound entertainment.

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About Shawn VanCour

Shawn VanCour is Assistant Professor of Media Archival Studies in UCLA’s Department of Information Studies. His research includes work on history of media technologies, media industries and labor practices, media archiving and preservation, and music and sound studies.

About Timothy Andrés Pabon

Timothy Andrés Pabon is an English- and Spanish-speaking voice-over artist who has worked extensively in advertising and audiobook narration. He has had acting roles on House of Cards and has also been a costar on HBO’s acclaimed series The Wire opposite country music legend Steve Earl. As a stage actor, he has worked off-Broadway at the June Havoc Theatre, and his regional credits include Center Stage, the Shakespeare Theatre, Arena Stage, the Hippodrome, Olney Theatre, Rep Stage, and GALA Hispanic Theatre.