New Deal Radio: The Educational Radio Project

Goodman, David,Hayes, Joy Elizabeth

ISBN 10: 1978817460 / ISBN 13: 9781978817463

Editore: Rutgers University Press, 2022

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Riassunto:

New Deal Radio examines the federal government's involvement in broadcasting during the New Deal period, looking at the U.S. Office of Education's Educational Radio Project. The fact that the United States never developed a national public broadcaster, has remained a central problem of US broadcasting history. Rather than ponder what might have been, authors Joy Hayes and David Goodman look at what did happen. There was in fact a great deal of government involvement in broadcasting in the US before 1945 at local, state, and federal levels. Among the federal agencies on the air were the Department of Agriculture, the National Park Service, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Federal Theatre Project.

Contextualizing the different series aired by the Educational Radio Project as part of a unified project about radio and citizenship is crucial to understanding them. New Deal Radio argues that this distinctive government commercial partnership amounted to a critical intervention in US broadcasting and an important chapter in the evolution of public radio in America.
 

Informazioni sull'autore: DAVID GOODMAN is professor of history at the University of Melbourne in Australia. He is the author of Gold Seeking: Victoria and California in the 1850s and Radio’s Civic Ambition: American Broadcasting and Democracy in the 1930s.

JOY ELIZABETH HAYES is associate professor of communication studies at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. She is the author of Radio Nation: Communication, Popular Culture and Nationalism in Mexico and co-editor of War of the Worlds to Social Media: Mediated Communication in Times of Crisis.
 

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Titolo: New Deal Radio: The Educational Radio Project
Casa editrice: Rutgers University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2022
Legatura: paperback
Condizione: Very Good