MCC-UE 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Joseph Horne Company, Federal Radio Commission, Frantz Fanon
27 Apr 2016
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Social construction of radio as broadcast entertainment medium: amateurs and. Frank conrad, westinghouse employee, broadcast phonograph music 1916. Joseph horne department store (pittsburgh) began to see pre-made radio sets. Interconnection of media: played gramophone records for listeners (which then sold better) 1920s: rise of independent stations with local programs. 1920s: the public interest had become defined as the commercial interest (hilmes) Before 1927, still a local medium; later national conglomerates increasingly dominated airwaves. Origins of the fcc (fcc act of 1934) Golden age of radio (1920s-1950s): evolution of programming from speeches and impromptu music to regularly scheduled shows. Soft technological determinism: radio drama and explorations of national identity and assimilation went hand in hand ine if the most commonly-agreed upon characteristics of the new medium was its ability to promote cultural homogeneity . This is the voice of algeria (1959)
