Research Catalog

Title

Radio art and music : culture, aesthetics, politics / edited by Jarmila Mildorf and Pim Verhulst.

Publication

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2020]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mildorf, Jarmila
• Verhulst, Pim

Description

vi, 269 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This book explores the cultural, aesthetic, and political relevance of music in radio art from its beginnings to present day. Contributors include musicologists, literary studies, and cultural studies scholars and cover radio plays, radio shows, and other programs in North American, English, Spanish, Greek, Italian, and German radio"--

Subject

• Radio and music
• Radio art
• Radio broadcasting > Aesthetics
• Radio broadcasting > Philosophy
• Radio broadcasting > Political aspects
• Radio broadcasting > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Radio art and music : an introduction / Jarmila Mildorf and Pim Verhulst -- The making of a nomenclature : José Iges on radiophonic art / Luz María Sánchez Cardona -- Maestro, if you please : the radio producer as musician / Jeremy Lakoff -- Norman Corwin, Bernard Herrmann, and musical direction for Columbia presents Corwin / Reba A. Wissner -- "Attitudes toward history" and the radiophonic compositions of Daphne Oram and the Firesign Theatre / David McCarthy -- Between art and promotion : the Prix Italia, its historical context and aims in the first fifty years 1949-1998 / Angela Ida De Benedictis -- A Canadian experiment in words-as-music : Glenn Gould's invention of form in his radio program The idea of North / Elissa Guralnick -- Jewish musical material in a 1946 American radio drama : "Rachel" / Paula Eisenstein Baker and Robert S. Nelson -- The bad violin's good politics : music of protest and disavowal in The Jack Benny program / Jade Conlee -- Shifting hues of blackface : performance of race in radio adaptations of Holiday Inn (1942) / Emily Lane -- Voicing the other world : music and the Victorian occult in midcentury American radio drama / Olivia Cacchione -- Collective responsibility in Ingeborg Bachmann and Hans Werner Henze's radio drama The cicadas / Lucy Jeffrey -- Music and politics in the BBC radio adaptation of Alan Bennett's The madness of George III / Jarmila Mildorf -- Adapting the soundtrack of revolution : Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' roll from stage to radio / Pim Verhulst -- Children's songs as socio-political comment in the Greek radio show Edo Lilipoupoli / Aikaterini Giampoura.

Call Number

*LE 21-1314

ISBN

• 9781498599795
• 1498599796
• 9781498599801 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2020002931

OCLC

1136872915

Title

Radio art and music : culture, aesthetics, politics / edited by Jarmila Mildorf and Pim Verhulst.

Publisher

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Mildorf, Jarmila, editor.

Verhulst, Pim, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Radio art and music Lanham : Lexington Books, 2020. 9781498599801 (DLC) 2020002932

Research Call Number

*LE 21-1314