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November 8, 1999
The Rain Barrel Extremely
Digestible Bibliography
today's subject:
Radio
| TITLE: |
A babel of broadcasts |
| AUTHOR(S): |
Hopkins,-Mark |
| SOURCE: |
Columbia-Journalism-Review.
v. 38 no2 July/Aug. 1999 p.44-7 |
| ABSTRACT: |
The United States is
propagandizing the world with a confusion of needless radio and TV programs.
U.S. taxpayers are now supporting not just one Voice of America, but seven
additional special interest radio and television services that broadcast
information and opinion globally. This complex, unique, and flimsy
structure has become a symbol of its managers' ignorance, shortsightedness,
and conspicuous wastefulness. A single Radio/TV America, uniting
all the existing U.S. services in a U.S. international public broadcasting
system, would best serve the principles of a free and open press that characterize
the best of American journalism. |
| DESCRIPTORS: |
International-broadcasting;
Radio-in-propaganda;
Radio-broadcasting-industry-United-States |
| TITLE: |
Massification revisited:
country music and demography |
| AUTHOR(S): |
Grabe,-Maria-Elizabeth |
| SOURCE: |
Popular-Music-and-Society.
v. 21 no4 Winter 1997 p. 63-84 |
| ABSTRACT: |
The writer investigates
the country music audience in terms of the "massification" hypothesis.
According to this hypothesis, she explains, the music has proliferated
to such a degree that it has become the preferred music of demographic
groups and inhabitants of geographic regions not traditionally associated
with country music. She takes account of the expanding popularity of country
music by examining the growing number of all-country radio stations and
analyzes the demographic profile of country music fans by using statistical
data. She affirms the notion that country music has grown in popularity
but contends that there is little support for the massification hypothesis.
Analyzing data that suggest that the demographic profile of country fans
has been remarkably stable over a 13-year period, she demonstrates that
country music supporters are part of a discrete taste culture that can
be distinguished by such demographic factors as age, race, education, employment
status, regionality, and the size of residential areas |
| DESCRIPTORS: |
Radio-audiences; Radio-programs-Country-music;
Radio-broadcasting-industry-United-States;
Industrial-statistics |
| TITLE: |
Media, politics, and
artful speech: Kuna radio programs |
| AUTHOR(S): |
De-Gerdes,-Marta-Lucia |
| SOURCE: |
Anthropological-Linguistics.
v. 40 no4 Winter 1998 p. 596-616 |
| ABSTRACT: |
The writer examines
the ethnographic context of radio broadcasts by the Kuna Indians of Panama
and analyzes the use of language in these speech events. She explains
that Kuna radio programs exhibit verbally artistic features and dialogic
patterning characteristics found in well-studied Kuna genres, particularly
certain formal and ritual performances. She maintains that this emerging
style of discourse confirms the centrality of verbal art in Kuna society
and its strategic function in internal and external Kuna politics.
The text of a Kuna broadcast on May 28, 1994, is provided in an appendix. |
| DESCRIPTORS: |
Indians-in-radio-broadcasting;
Radio-programs-Panama;
Cuna-Indians |
| TITLE: |
Radio rules |
| AUTHOR(S): |
Polter,-Julie |
| SOURCE: |
Sojourners. v. 28 no1
Jan./Feb. 1999 p. 11-12 |
| ABSTRACT: |
In 1978, the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) stopped licenses for low-power (ten watt
and under) non-commercial FM stations. Several hundred microbroadcasters
say this ban is an infringement of free speech. They argue that microbroadcasters
and the FCC should work together to make low-power stations an orderly
part of the radio spectrum and that creating air space for community-based
radio is essential for a healthy civil society. |
| DESCRIPTORS: |
Freedom-of-speech-United-States;
Radio-broadcasting-industry-United-States;
Radio-programs-Social-aspects |
| TITLE: |
"Right out in public":
Pacifica Radio, the cold war, and the political origins of alternative
media |
| AUTHOR(S): |
Lasar,-Matthew, 1954- |
| SOURCE: |
Pacific-Historical-Review.
v. 67 no4 Nov. 1998 p.
513-41 |
| ABSTRACT: |
The history of the Pacifica
Foundation, the
organization that founded
noncommercial FM radio, illustrates the compromises between radicalism
and the state that produced the ideology of the alternative media.
As it negotiated its way through the threats posed by McCarthyism, the
Pacifica Foundation defined many of the terms and ideas now associated
with alternativity. The credo of alternativity was developed by the
founders of public broadcasting not because it reflected their worldview,
but because it allowed them to go in the general direction they wanted
to without too much government interference. The Pacifica Foundation
was initially inspired by anarcho-pacifist objectives, but the creators
of Pacifica radio responded to the threat posed by the anticommunist state
by inventing the less radical ideology of alternativity. |
| DESCRIPTORS: |
Pacifica-Foundation;
Radio-and-politics;
Communism-Anticommunist-measures;
Alternative-radio-broadcasting |
| TITLE: |
The role of radio in
the Rwandan genocide |
| AUTHOR(S): |
Kellow,-Christine-L;
Steeves,-H.-Leslie |
| SOURCE: |
Journal-of-Communication.
v. 48 no3 Summer 1998 p.
107-28 |
| ABSTRACT: |
The writers analyze
and interpret the role of the
government-controlled
Radio-Television Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) in the 1994 Rwandan genocide,
which entailed mass killings both of and by civilians. They discuss
the historical and political context of the genocide and examine excerpts
from RTLM radio broadcasts and observational accounts. In addition,
by means of several strands of communication scholarship related to collective
reaction effects and dependency theory, they interpret the role played
by radio in inciting the genocide. |
| DESCRIPTORS: |
Radio-Television-Libre-des-Mille-Collines-Rwanda;
Radio-programs-Psychological-aspects;
Rwandan-propaganda; Rwanda-History-Civil-War-1991-1994-Atrocities |
| TITLE: |
A decade of indecency
enforcement: a study of how the Federal Communications Commission assesses
indecency fines (1987-1997) |
| AUTHOR(S): |
Rivera-Sanchez,-Milagros |
| SOURCE: |
Journalism-and-Mass-Communication-Quarterly.
v. 75 no1 Spring 1998 p. 143-53 |
| ABSTRACT: |
In recent years, the
Federal Communications
Commission has been
quite active in leveling fines against various broadcast outlets for "indecent"
programming. This study examines the standards that the FCC uses
in an attempt to discover the way in which programs are evaluated and fines
assessed. In conducting this study, the authors investigate whether the
FCC has developed a predictable pattern to follow in reviewing programming
and leveling fines. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, AEJMC. |
| DESCRIPTORS: |
United-States-Federal-Communications-Commission;
Obscenity-Law; Fines-Penalties;
Television-laws-and-regulations-United-States;
Radio-laws-and-regulations-United-States |
| TITLE: |
Children's creative
imagination in response to radio and television stories |
| AUTHOR(S): |
Valkenburg,-Patti-M;
Beentjes,-Johannes-W.-J |
| SOURCE: |
Journal-of-Communication.
v. 47 Spring 1997 p. 21-38 |
| ABSTRACT: |
The writers investigate
the hypothesis that radio
stories elicit more
novel responses than do television stories because they are less well remembered
(faulty-memory hypothesis). They presented 64 children at two age
levels (grades 1 to 2 and 3 to 4) with one radio story and one television
story and exposed half the children in both age groups to the radio story
twice to stimulate their memory. Contrary to the faulty-memory hypothesis,
they find, double presentation of a radio story did not result in fewer
novel ideas than did a single presentation. In the older age group,
they explain, radio stories elicited more novel responses than did television
stories, but no medium difference in the younger age group was found. |
| DESCRIPTORS: |
Creation-Literary-artistic-etc;
Storytelling-;
Radio-programs-Psychological-aspects;
Television-Psychological-aspects;
Radio-and-children; Television-and-children |
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