Radio, Race, and Audible Difference in Post-1945 America

The Citizens Band

Art M. Blake (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XV, 92 Seiten

2019 | 1st ed. 2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-31840-6 (ISBN)

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In the second half of the twentieth century, new sounds began to reverberate across the United States. The voices of African-Americans as well as of women, Latinx, queer, and trans people broke through in social movements, street protests, and in media stories of political and social disruption. Postwar America literally sounded different. This book argues that new technologies and new mobilities sharpened American attention to these audibly coded identities, on the radio, on the streets and highways, in new music, and on television. Covering the Puerto Rican migration to New York in the 1950s, the varying uses of CB radio by white and African American citizens in the 1970s, and the emergence of audible queerness, Art M. Blake attunes us to the sounds of race, mobility, and audible difference. As he argues, marginalized groups disrupted the postwar machine age by using new media technologies to make themselves heard.

Art M. Blake is Associate Professor of History and a faculty member in the Communication and Culture graduate program at Ryerson University, Canada.

1. America in Color: The Postwar Audible Spectrum.- 2. The Sounds of White Vulnerability.- 3. Mobilizing Black Technoculture.- 4. Queering the Spectrum from Radio to Local TV.

Erscheinungsdatum	21.11.2019
Zusatzinfo	XV, 92 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	287 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
Schlagworte	CB radio • civil rights history • Communications technology • History of the media • los angeles history • Podcasting • public radio • Puerto Rican migration • Queer Culture • racial segregation in broadcast media • Sound Studies • technocultures • whiteness
ISBN-10	3-030-31840-0 / 3030318400
ISBN-13	978-3-030-31840-6 / 9783030318406
Zustand	Neuware