Music Radio: Building Communities, Mediating Genres

by Morten Michelsen (Editor), Mads Krogh (Editor), Steen Kaargaard Nielsen (Editor), Iben Have (Editor)

Overview

Why is music so important to radio? This anthology explores the ways in which musical life and radio interact, overlap and have influenced each other for nearly a century. One of music radio's major functions is to help build smaller or larger communities by continuously offering broadcast music as a means to create identity and senses of belonging. Music radio also helps identify and develop musical genres in collaboration with listeners and the music industry by mediating and by gatekeeping.

Focusing on music from around the world, Music Radio discusses what music radio is and why or for what purposes it is produced. Each essay illuminates the intricate cultural processes associated with music and radio and suggests ways of working with such complexities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501343223
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/27/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	344
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Mads Krogh is Associate Professor at the School of Communication and Culture, section for Musicology, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Morten Michelsen is Associate Professor in the Section for Musicology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Steen Kaargaard Nielsen is Associate Professor at the School of Communication and Culture, section for Musicology, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Iben Have is Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, in the Section for Media and Journalism Studies.
Morten Michelsen is Associate Professor in Musicology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is head of the research project "A Century of Radio and Music in Denmark," co-author of Rock Criticism from the Beginning (2005), and co-editor of Tunes for All? Music on Danish Radio (2018) along with Mads Krogh, Iben Have, and Steen Kaargaard Nielsen.
Mads Krogh is Associate Professor of Popular Music Culture at Aarhus University, Denmark. His research explores issues of genre, mediation, and practice combining inspiration from cultural sociology, assemblage, affect, and actor-network theory. In recent years, he has been particularly concerned with genre formation and classificatory practices in digital contexts of musical life. Recent books include Music Radio: Building Communities, Mediating Genres (Bloomsbury, 2019) and Methodologies of Affective Experimentation (2022).
Steen Kaargaard is Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is co-author of Denmark's First Sound Recordings (2017).
Iben Have is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Aarhus University. She studies audio and audiovisual media from an interdisciplinary perspective across Media Studies, Sound Studies and Digital Humanities. Her most recent publications are Digital Audiobooks: New Media, Users, and Experiences (2016) and Tunes for All: Music on Danish Radio (co-editor, 2018). She is founder and chief editor of the online journal SoundEffects and co-manager of the digital radio archive LARM.fm.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Complexities of Genre, of Mediation and of Community
Mads Krogh and Morten Michelsen

Section I: Music Radio Ethnographies
1. Migrant Radio, Community and (New) Fado: The Case of Radio ALFA
Pedro Moreira, Universidade Nova, Portugal
2. On Sonic Assemblage: Indigenous Radio and the Management of Heteroglossia
Daniel Fisher, University of California, Berkeley, USA
3. Voicing Otherness on Air: Theorizing Radio Through the Figure of Voice
Kristine Ringsager, Aalborg University, Denmark, and Sandra Lori Pedersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Section II: Music Radio and Nation Building
4. Broadcasting the New Nation: Radio and the Intentions Behind National Genres in Latin America
Marcio Pinho and Julio Mendivil, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt
5. The Edufication and Musicalization of Radio: CKUA, “Good Music,” and “Uplifting Taste”
Brian Fauteux, University of Alberta, Canada
6. Mediated Soundscapes: Representations of the National in the Soundscape Call-in Programme Äänien ilta
Meri Kytö, University of Tampere, Finland
7. Dispositives of Sound: Folk Music Collections, Radio and the National Imagination, 1890s–1960s
Johannes Müske, University of Zürich, Switzerland

Section III: Music Radio: Genre and Mediation
8. Mediatization – Radiofication – Musicalization
Alf Björnberg, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
9. Formats, Genres and Abstraction: On Musico-Generic Assemblages in the Context of Format Radio Production
Mads Krogh, Aarhus University, Denmark
10. Music Radio's Mediations of the Music-Cultural High/Low Divide Before the 1980s
Morten Michelsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Section IV: Music Radio Convergences
11. Format, the Literature of American Popular Music and Mr Crump
Eric Weisbard, University of Alabama, USA
12. MTV and the Remediation of FM radio
Ariane Holzbach, Federal Fluminense University, Brazil
13. Music Radio as a Format Remediated for the Stream–Based Music Use
Andreas Ægidius, University of Southern Denmark

Editorial Reviews

Music Radio offers valuable theoretical insight and workable analytical approaches to a highly under-researched field - considering the enormous impact of music radio in history right until today. Reflecting the diversity of radio cultures' dependency on infrastructures, media regulation, music markets and audience indentities, the book qualifies for teaching and scholarly purposes alike.” —Golo Föllmer, Lecturer in Music and Media and Project Leader of the European research project "Transnational Radio Encounters," Martin Luther University, Germany

“This volume is a welcome contribution to the growing literature on music and radio. Most exciting is the global reach of the case studies – eclectic programming on indigenous radio in Australia and community radio in Canada, a Finnish soundscape call-in show, popular music on radio in mid-twentieth-century Brazil and Peru, and diasporic DJs in Denmark, to name a few examples. Readers will appreciate the thoughtful reflections on genre and community by the editors and their contributors.” —Christina Baade, Professor of Communication Studies and Multimedia, McMaster University, Canada, and co-editor of Music and the Broadcast Experience: Performance, Production, and Audiences (2016)

“Rich in empirical case studies and theoretical reflection, this inspiring collection on music radio amply demonstrates how interdisciplinary dialogue can afford new insights into the complexity and significance of one of the most ubiquitous and deceptively familiar media forms.” —Kate Lacey, Professor of Media History and Theory, University of Sussex, UK, and author of Listening Publics: The Politics and Experience of Listening in the Media Age (2013)

“This unique volume presents an international and multi-disciplinary examination of music radio and its diversity of styles, audiences, communicative and institutional forms, markets, and national settings. The international scholars, their dialog across the chapters, and their diverse case studies further our understanding of music radio and test our concepts of genre, mediatization, and community.” —Eric W. Rothenbuhler, Professor of Media Studies, Webster University, USA

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