Transnationalizing Radio Research presents a theoretical and methodological guide for exploring radio's multiple ?global ages?, from its earliest years through its recent digital transformations. It offers radio scholars theoretical tools and concrete case studies for moving beyond national research frames. It gives radio practitioners inspiration for production and archiving, and offers scholars from many disciplines new ways to incorporate radio's vital voices into work on transnational institutions, communities, histories and identities.
Golo Föllmer is private lecturer at the Department of Media and Communication at Martin Luther University, Halle. Alexander Badenoch is professor of transnational media at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and assistant professor in media and cultural studies at Utrecht University. Alexander Badenoch is professor of transnational media at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and assistant professor of media and cultural studies at Utrecht University.
Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Introduction: Transnationalizing Radio Research: New Encounters with an Old Medium 11 Community Radio and Transnational Identities 33 Accented Radio in Miami and New Orleans 47 Radio, Refugees and Migrants Workshop: TRE Conference, Utrecht, 2016 57 You Can't Tell My Story for Me! Community Media as a Means of Expression in Multilingual Local and Globalized Contexts 59 Desi Radio by and for the Panjabi Community: Citizens' Media, Gender, and Participation 65 Gaywaves: Transcending Boundaries - the Rise and Demise of Britain's First Gay Radio Program 73 Transnational Encounters and Peregrinations of the Radio Documentary Imagination 83 Production and Use of Packaging Elements in Radio: Concepts, Functions and Styles in Transnational Comparison 101 Makrolab as an Apparatus for Global Observation 117 Transcultural Audio Storytelling: When German, Australian and African Voices Meet 125 A Transnational Approach to Radio Amateurism in the 1910s 133 Radiophonic Cities The City Portrait in Transnational Radio Collaborations 143 European Music? The International Broadcasting Union's 1930s Concert Series Concerts Europ