ABSTRACT

This comprehensive companion is a seminal reference source for the expanding field of radio, audio and podcast study, taking readers through a diverse range of essays examining the core questions and key debates surrounding radio practices, technologies, industries, policies, resources, histories, and relationships with audiences.

Drawing together original essays from well-established and emerging scholars to conceptualise this multidisciplinary field, this book’s global perspective acknowledges radio’s enduring affinity with the local, historical relationship to the national, and its unpredictably transnational reach. In its capacious understanding of what constitutes radio, this collection also recognizes the latent time-and-space shifting possibilities of radio broadcasting, and of the myriad ways for audio to come to us "live." Chapters on terrestrial radio mingle with studies of podcasts and streaming audio, emphasizing continuities and innovations in form and content, delivery and reception, production cultures and aesthetics, reminding us that neither "radio" nor "podcasting" should be approached as static objects of analysis but rather as mutually constituting cultural forms.

This cutting edge and vibrant companion provides a rich resource for scholars and students of history, art theory, industry studies, journalism, media and communication, cultural studies, feminist analysis, and postcolonial studies.

Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies - Editors’ Introduction Part 1 Understanding Radio and Podcasting 1 But Is It Radio? New Forms and Voices in the Audio Private Sphere 2 Podcasting as a Hybrid Cultural Form Between Old and New 3 Listening Back: Materiality, Mediatization and Method in Radio History  4 Radio and Sound Studies: How We Got Here  5 "Pause and reflect" – practice-as-research methods in radio and podcast studies 6 Understanding Radio Archives: Coalitional Historiography and Sound Memory Work Part 2 Histories 7 Radio and Democratic Citizenship 8 For anyone who’s someone: early radio’s democratic promise 9 Radio in New Zealand: The Neoliberal Experiment Comes of Age 10 Forming Networks: National Radio Networks − Public, State, and Commercial 11 Listening to Radio in South Africa, 1920s-1994 12 Transborder Broadcasting: Warfare, Propaganda and Public Diplomacy on the Airwaves 13 Reactionary Conservatism and Legacies of Struggle in US Radio History 14 When Big Business was in Show Business: US Radio Before Television 15 Ethereal Gender: Thoughts on the History of Radio and Women’s Voices 16 ‘When She Can Not Be Seen’: Constructing the Commercial Accent of Women’s Voices in Clara, Lu ‘n’ Em Part 3 Formats, Genres and Aesthetics 17 Radio Fever? The Health Roots of Early Radio 18 Nobody Knows Anything: Recessive Epistemologies in True Crime Podcasting 19 True Crime and Audio Media 20 Radio Formats: Sound Rules for Addressing the Narrowcast Audience Commodity 21 BBC Woman’s Hour  22 The Enduring Significance of The War of the Worlds as Broadcast Event 23 The Traffic in Feelings: The Car Radio Assemblage 24 Radio features dead or alive? 25 From Phoebe’s Fall to The Last Voyage of the Pong Su: How an Australian Newspaper Made Hit Narrative Podcasts 26 Podcasting and Journalism in the Spanish-Speaking World 27 Podcasting's Transmedia Liveness 28 Transgressing Boundary Rituals on Radio Part 4 Radio and Podcast Publics 29 Community Radio as Development Radio: A Critical Analysis of Third-Sector Radio in South Asia  30 Uneasy allies: community radio and communication for social change  31 Radio, Decolonization, and Decoloniality in the Caribbean 32 Radio's role in empowering women in conflict-affected areas  33 Women FM (W.FM): The Women-focused Radio Station Amplifying the Voices of Nigerian Women 34 Radyo Tanudan: Sonic Collectivities in a Philippine Village  35 Listening to ‘Don Cheto’ on Contemporary US Spanish-language Radio 36 Can True Crime Podcasts Make Structural Violence Audible? 37 The evolving genre of Prisoner Radio: An international examination Part 5 Markets, Platforms and Technologies 38 "This is so cool - radio at my fingertips!" Young people’s responses to Radio Garden 39 Taping the Radio: Recording Memories 40 What is a podcast? Mapping the technical, cultural, and sonic boundaries between radio and podcasting 41 ‘Podcast Studies’ and its Techno-Social Discourses 42 From Niche to Mainstream: The Emergence of a Podcasting Culture and Market in the Italian Radio Context 43 The New Role of Music Radio Formats: The Platformization of the Radio System? 44 How Radio is Remediated in Streaming: The Case of Radio in Spotify 45 Artificial Intelligence and Radio Broadcasting: Opportunities and Challenges in the Chinese Context 46 Radio Automation: Sonic Control in American Broadcasting