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

The Citizens Band
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-31840-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 92 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 263 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blake, Art M.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Regionalgeschichte der USA: Einzelne Staaten, Städte
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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