Music Radio And The Public Sphere

Download or read book Music, Radio and the Public Sphere written by Charles Fairchild and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radio, the most widely used medium in the world, is a dominant mediator of musical meaning. Through a combination of critical analysis, interdisciplinary theory and ethnographic writing about community radio, this book provides a novel theorization of democratic aesthetics, with important implications for the study of old and new media alike.