Music and the Broadcast Experience: Performance, Production, and Audiences
Christina Baade and James A. Deaville
Abstract
This book explores the complex ways in which music and broadcasting have developed together throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries. It brings into dialogue researchers working in media studies and music studies; explores and develops crucial points of contact between studies of music in radio and music in television; and investigates the limits, persistence, and extensions of music broadcasting in the Internet era. The book presents a series of case studies that address key moments and concerns in both classical and popular music broadcasting, past and present, written by ... More
This book explores the complex ways in which music and broadcasting have developed together throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries. It brings into dialogue researchers working in media studies and music studies; explores and develops crucial points of contact between studies of music in radio and music in television; and investigates the limits, persistence, and extensions of music broadcasting in the Internet era. The book presents a series of case studies that address key moments and concerns in both classical and popular music broadcasting, past and present, written by leading scholars in the field, who hail from both media and music studies. Unified by attentiveness both to musical sound and meaning and to broadcasting structures, practices, audiences, and discourses, the chapters in this collection address the following topics: the role of live orchestral concerts and opera in the early development of radio and their relation to ideologies of musical uplift; the relation between production culture, music, and television genre; the function of music in sponsored radio during the 1930s; the fortunes of musical celebrity and artistic ambition on television; questions of music format and political economy in the development of online radio; and the negotiation of space, community, and participation among audiences, online and offline, in the early twenty-first century. The collection’s ultimate aim is to explore the usefulness and limitations of broadcasting as a concept for understanding music and its cultural role, both historically and today.
Keywords:
audiences,
broadcasting,
classical music,
media studies,
music,
popular music,
production culture,
radio,
television
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199314706 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2016 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199314706.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Christina Baade, editor
Associate Professor, Communication Studies, McMaster University
James A. Deaville, editor
Professor, School for Studies in Art & Culture: Music, Carleton University
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