Ray Barfield has done something quite new in media studies. Rather than trace the history of radio through the usual route, he has sought out a body of oral his

Jason Loviglio shows how early network radio in America produced a new type of community, marked by the contradictions & tensions between public & private, mass

Orson Welles’s greatest breakthrough into the popular consciousness occurred in 1938, three years before Citizen Kane, when his War of the Worlds radio broadc

The 1920s saw the United States rise to its current status as the leading world superpower, matched by an emerging cultural dominance that characterized the sec

Sweet Air rewrites the history of early twentieth-century pop music in modernist terms. Tracking the evolution of popular regional genres such as blues, country