The lasting impacts of sound

• Radio is next mass medium after print

• Like print, emphasizes certain ideas of community, particularly national community– “Synchronicity”

Radio• Balance shifted

back to speech• Voice =

emotionality• Issues of

linguistic identity – minority dialects?

Go Cougs!

Performance and repertoire• Wider reception

of music• National music

heritage and “foreign” music

• Live performance• Music and drama

• Live show recordings

Aural environments• Like TV,

technology must fit within daily life

• Radio ownership limited in early exposure• Public

listening• Radio = a

prestigious valuable

Think about your radio experiences over your lifetime

• Where did you listen• What kind of radio equipment• Collective? Individual?• What changes over time– What you listen to– How you listen to it– Where you listen to it

Radio and sound technology

• TV may be more influential

• But aural production/reception not replaced by audiovisual technologies

Space and politics

• Immediacy• Separating

sound from who and what produces it – Less

constrained by space• Ham radio• CB

• Technology and input = simpler than TV• Radio can be apart from state sponsorship or support

• Radio voices can enter spaces where actual people can’t– Voice of America

Portable sound…• Telephony/

music/talk – influence on sense of self and space

• Aural/visual dimensions of handhelds in less literate settings