About the Book
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Radio presents exciting new research on radio and audio, including broadcasting and podcasting. Since the birth of radio studies as a distinct subject in the 1990s, it has matured into a second wave of inquiry and scholarship. As broadcast radio has partly given way to podcasting and as community initiatives have pioneered more diverse and innovative approaches so scholars have embarked on new areas of inquiry.
Divided into seven sections, the Handbook covers:
- Communities
- Entertainment
- Democracy
- Emotions
- Listening
- Studying Radio
- Futures
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Radio is designed to offer academics, researchers and practitioners an international, comprehensive collection of original essays written by a combination of well-established experts, new scholars and industry practitioners. Each section begins with an introduction by Hugh Chignell and Kathryn McDonald, putting into context each contribution, mapping the discipline and capturing new directions of radio research, while providing an invaluable resource for radio studies.
Table of Contents:
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Kathryn McDonald and Hugh Chignell (Bournemouth University, UK)
Section 1: Entertainment
Introduction
Kathryn McDonald and Hugh Chignell (Bournemouth University, UK)
1. ‘Don’t Let ‘em Divide Us’: Free World Theatre and U.S. Wartime Morale Drama
Matthew Killmeier (Auburn University at Montgomery, USA)
2. Podcasting as a Music-Educational Practice
Morten Michelsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
3. Hearing Age in Music Streaming: Wellbeing, Marketing, and Older Listeners
Christina Baade (McMaster University, Canada)
4. Past the Gate: Women in Sports Talk Radio
Lori Beckstead (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)
5. Expressions of Radio Drama: Samuel Beckett, Louis MacNeice, and the BBC
Emily Best (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
6. Illuminated Radio: Imagination and Affect in the Tradition of the Audio 'Feature’, ‘Acoustic Film’ and Radio Documentaire de Creation
Virginia Madsen (Macquarie University, Australia)
Section 2: Listening
Introduction
Kathryn McDonald and Hugh Chignell (Bournemouth University, UK)
7. Tuning In and Listening Out: intersections of Voice and Listening in Community Radio
Bridget Backhaus (Griffith University, Australia)
8. The Listener of the Future: Exploring Public Service Broadcasters’ Strategies About Radio Apps
Marta Perrotta (Roma Tre University, Italy)
9. Using a ‘Critical Ear’ – Developing a Practitioner-Researcher Framework for Analytical Listening in Podcast Studies
Britta Jorgensen (Independent Scholar, Australia)
10. An Analysis of Black American Radio Listenership
Kim Fox (The American University in Cairo, Egypt)
Section 3: Emotions
Introduction
Kathryn McDonald and Hugh Chignell (Bournemouth University, UK)
11. Emotions in the Dark: A History of Late-Night French Radio
Marine Beccarelli (Paris 1 University, France)
12. The Radio Phone-in and the Suicidal Caller
Kathryn McDonald (Bournemouth University, UK)
13. Presenting… Producers! And Producing Presenters
Helen Wolfenden (Macquarie University, Australia)
14. Audio within Audio: Phones, Materiality, and the Elicitation of Emotion in Podcasting
Evi Karathanasopoulou (Bournemouth University, UK)
Section 4: Communities
Introduction
Kathryn McDonald and Hugh Chignell (Bournemouth University, UK)
15. Greater than the Sum of its Parts: Community-building Approaches Across Community Radio
Katie Moylan (University of Leicester, UK)
16. Feeding the Beast. What it Means to be a Community Radio Presenter in the UK
Josephine Coleman (Brunel University, UK)
17. Daring to be Different! Ethnic Community Radio as a Space of Inclusion
Gloria Khamkar (Bournemouth University, UK)
18. The Changing Context of Community Radio
Lawrie Hallett (University of Bedfordshire, UK)
Section 5: Democracy
Introduction
Kathryn McDonald and Hugh Chignell (Bournemouth University, UK)
19. Dutch Radio News: From Public Polarisation to Public Service
Anya Luscombe (UCR/Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
20. Still Serving the Public? News Provision on BBC Radio
Katy McDonald (Newcastle University, UK)
21. Spanish Radio in the Early Years of Democracy: Antena 3 Radio
Pilar Dobón-Roux (International University of Valencia, Spain)
Section 6: Studying Radio
Introduction
Kathryn McDonald and Hugh Chignell (Bournemouth University, UK)
22. Studying 1960s Commercial Radio
Richard Legay (University of Tübingen, Germany)
23. Studying Radio: Researching Women in Radio Production in the Early BBC
Kate Murphy (Bournemouth University, UK)
24. ‘Podcasting Radio on Podcasts’ - Edutainment Podcasting Pedagogy for Radio Students during COVID19
Kylie Sturgess (Murdoch University, Australia), Lauren O’Mahony (Murdoch University, Australia), Kathryn Trees and Simon Order
25. The Place of Radio in the Soundscapes: Everyday Listening and Producing Sounds in Marginalised Communities of the Global South
Andrea Medrado (University of Westminster, UK)
Section 7: Futures
Introduction
Kathryn McDonald and Hugh Chignell (Bournemouth University, UK)
26. Queer Networks Versus Global Corporations: The Battle for the Soul of Audio Fiction
Ella Watts (Independent Scholar, UK)
27. Recalling Radio: An Archival View from Radio's Second Century
Alexander Badenoch (Free University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
28. Hyperlocal radio – Reclaiming Conversation Through Social Broadcasting
Lucia Scazzocchio (Independent Scholar, UK)
29. Making Waves Behind Bars; The (Past, Present and) Future of Prison Radio
Phil Maguire (Independent Scholar, UK)
30. Radio in the Round: Reflections on the Future of Sound Media
Richard Berry (University of Sunderland, UK)
Bibliography
Index
About the Author :
Kathryn McDonald is a Principal Academic at the Faculty of Media and Communication, Bournemouth University, UK. Her research, practice and teaching are focused on broadcast talk, community engagement and audio production. McDonald has worked as a radio producer, led the BA Radio Production degree, and now teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
Hugh Chignell is Emeritus Professor of Media History at the Faculty of Media and Communication, Bournemouth University, UK. He taught on the MA Radio Production and BA Radio and was director of the Centre for Media History. Chignell has published widely on radio including Key Concepts in Radio Studies (2009), Public Issue Radio (2011) and British Radio Drama 1945-63 (Bloomsbury 2019).
Review :
The editors brilliantly bring together a range of influential and engaging scholars and practitioners of radio, not just to define and map areas of radio studies such as listening, communities or entertainment, but also to set the agenda for the future investigation of radio and audio cultures. This handbook understands radio not only as (still) an incredibly powerful media, but also as a burgeoning audio culture and field of research. This handbook is compelling and useful and will serve both scholars and practitioners.
This is a superbly wide-ranging collection with a wealth of approaches and methodologies, with a particular emphasis on radio and audio production scholarship. Contributors include new and well-established authorities who explore historical and contemporary radio and sound practices on a scale that is both global and intimate. This collection represents essential reading for scholars and a comprehensive introduction to students new to the field of Radio and Podcast Studies.
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Radio tours the globe for an important and innovative examination of entertainment, listening, emotions, communities, democracy, radio research, and futures. The contributions from Australia, Brazil, Canada, and the United Kingdom brings life to contemporary research that crosses borders with shared research foci. The inclusive nature of lived experience, archival research, and analysis that ranges from early radio to podcasting will have a significant impact in radio studies for decades to come. Congratulations to all the contributors and the editors, Kathryn McDonald and Hugh Chignell.
The Handbook’s interdisciplinary thinking and focus on underrepresented contributors and communities should motivate the ongoing broadening of the purview of modernist radio studies … an engagement with hitherto neglected audiences and a focus on improved accessibility to archives can ensure the continuing relevance of a medium that ‘is and always has been […] in flux.
