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Radio The Life Story of a Technology
Brian Regal
Book Code: GR3167
ISBN: 0-313-33167-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-33167-1
176 pages, halftones
Greenwood Press
Publication: 9/30/2005
List Price: $46.95 (UK Sterling Price: £26.95)
Discount Price: $32.87 Greenwood Press Fall 2008 Backlist Sale. Use code 0826. Save 30%. Ends 12/31/2008.
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Series Title: Greenwood Technographies
Reviews:
  • Radio was more than just a media delivery system: it was a new technology which changed and connected the lives of the world, moving from a clumsy wireless telegraph to a system which is so much a part of our lives that its roots have all but been forgotten. So as not to forget, Radio: The Life Story of a Technology considers both the scientific and social changes radio brought, considering it as a cultural phenomenon and providing a history of the business and social impact of radio. There have of course been other radio histories on the market - but none other with the attention to both social and economic impact.
    —MBR Bookwatch     December 2005
Description: This book chronicles the history of radio as technology and as media. Radio grew from a clumsy, temperamental form of wireless telegraph to a system that is so ubiquitous and easy to use that it has disappeared to users as a technology and became part of the fabric of human existence. This biography charts the growth of the technical end of radio, starting with the history of electricity, and moving through the invention of vacuum tubes, the heterodyne, FM, transistors, and microchips. But the history of radio is not just wires and electricity--it's the story of strange characters, deep thinkers, visionary mystics, hyperactive minds, ambitious souls, power hungry demagogues, and utopian humanists; all of whom strove to make radio into what they thought it should be. In addition, Radio: The Life Story of a Technology looks at the technology as a cultural phenomenon, including the corporate aspects and history of the business of radio. In the middle of the 20th century people saw that radio could be used as an agent of social change, both good and bad. The transition of radio from private corporate device to public news provider to entertainment box back to political tool is at the heart of this work.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Series Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Timeline
  • The Ancestry of Radio
  • Radio is Born
  • Plastic and Transistors
  • Private to Public
  • The Cultural Juggernaut
  • Haranguers, Listeners, and Howard Stern
  • Did video kill the radio star?
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
LC Card Number: 2005017403
LCC Class: TK6547
Dewey Class: 621
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