Table of Contents

Re-Thinking Radio, Michele Hilmes; Radio and Political Transition - Public Service, Propaganda and Promotional Culture, Kate Lacey; Critical Reception: Public Intellectuals Dercry Depression-era Radio, Mass Culture and Modern America Bruce Lenthall, Retuning the Farm - Rural Radio Listening and the State in Wisconsin, 1920-1932, Derek Vaillant; Vox Pop: Network Radio and the Voice of the People, Jason Loviglio; The Tendency to Deprave and Corrupt - Regulation and Irregular Sexuality in Golden Age Radio Comedy Matthew Murray, Man of the Hour, Walter A. Maier and the Religion by Radio on the Lutheran Hour, Tona Hangen; Scary Women and Scarred Men - Radio Suspense Drama, Gender Trouble and Postwar Change (1943-1948), Allison McCracken; Radio's "Cultural Front" 1938-1948, Judith E. Smith; Radio and the Political Discourse of Racial Equality, Barbara Savage; A Dark(ened) Figure on the Airwaves - Radio, Racial Representation and The Green Hornet, Alexander Russo; American Radio Propogandists for the Axis Powers, William F.O'Connor; Bells of Freedom - American Influenced Radio Programming during the Allied Occupation of Japan, Susan Smulyan; Before the Scandals - The Radio Precedents of the Quiz Show Genre, Jason Mittell; The "Radio-Active Housewife" - Suburban Consumers, Cold War Homes, and the Demise of Daytime Serials in the Age of Television, Jennifer Wang; Radio, Music, Culture and Business in Transition - 1947-1962, Eric Rothenbuhler; Turn On ... Tune In - The Rise and Demise of Commercial Underground Radio, Michael Keith; National Public Radio and the Idea of Public Service, Jack Mitchell; The Alienation fo the Public from Public Radio - The Low-Power Alternative, Paul Riismandel; Scanning the "Stations of the Cross" - Christian Right Radio in Post-Fordist Society, Paul Apostolidis, Black Liberation Radio, John Fiske; Talk Talk, Susan Douglas; Radio's Digital Future - Preserving the Public Interest in the Age of New Media, Michael McCauley.

About the Author

Michele Hilmes is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Hollywood in the Age of Television: From Radio to Cable and Radio Voices: American Broadcasting 1922-1952. Jason Loviglio is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.