This book explores the cultural, aesthetic, and political relevance of music in radio art from its beginnings to present day. Contributors include musicologists, literary studies, and cultural studies scholars and cover radio plays, radio shows, and other programs in North American, English, Spanish, Greek, Italian, and German radio.
Jarmila Mildorf teaches English language and literature at the University of Paderborn. Pim Verhulst is assistant professor of English literature at the University of Antwerp.
Radio Art and Music: An Introduction Jarmila Mildorf and Pim Verhulst Chapter 1: The Making of a Nomenclature: Jose Iges on Radiophonic Art Luz Maria Sanchez Cardona Chapter 2: Maestro, If You Please: The Radio Producer as Musician Jeremy Lakoff Chapter 3: Norman Corwin, Bernard Herrmann, and Musical Direction for Columbia Presents Corwin Reba A. Wissner Chapter 4: "Attitudes toward History" and the Radiophonic Compositions of Daphne Oram and the Firesign Theatre David McCarthy Chapter 5: Between Art and Promotion: The Prix Italia, Its Historical Context and Aims in the First Fifty Years 1949-1998 Angela Ida De Benedictis Chapter 6: A Canadian Experiment in Words-as-Music: Glenn Gould's Invention of Form in his Radio Program The Idea of North Elissa Guralnick Chapter 7: Jewish Musical Material in a 1946 American Radio Drama: "Rachel" Paula Eisenstein Baker and Robert S. Nelson Chapter 8: The Bad Violin's Good Politics: Music of Protest and Disavowal in The Jack Benny Program Jade Conlee Chapter 9: Shifting Hues of Blackface: Performance of Race in Radio Adaptations of Holiday Inn (1942) Emily Lane Chapter 10: Voicing the Other World: Music and the Victorian Occult in Midcentury American Radio Drama Olivia Cacchione Chapter 11: Collective Responsibility in Ingeborg Bachmann and Hans Werner Henze's Radio Drama The Cicadas Lucy Jeffrey Chapter 12: Music and Politics in the BBC Radio Adaptation of Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III Jarmila Mildorf Chapter 13: Adapting the Soundtrack of Revolution: Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll from Stage to Radio Pim Verhulst Chapter 14: Children's Songs as Socio-Political Comment in the Greek Radio Show Edo Lilipoupoli Aikaterini Giampoura About the Contributors
This edited volume is an academic goldmine of enlightening analysis of nomenclature which effortlessly connects such disparate topics as drama and music at the BBC during the 1920s, Norman Corwin and Bernard Herrmann for CBS during the Golden age of U.S. Radio, and even the sound art radiophonic compositions of Daphne Oram. The scholarship is brilliant. The writing powerful, illuminating, and thought-provoking. The examination of the historical practice is transnational and transcultural, and features original contribution knowledge from early career researchers and leading professors in their field. This book makes a coherent and lasting contribution to understanding the cultural studies of radio and music in the 20th century. -- Tim Crook, Goldsmiths, University of London This book is a first-rate interdisciplinary study mapping a series of key historical intersections between music and radio art. Detailed in its analysis, international in its scope, and rich in its intellectual depth, Radio Art and Music: Culture, Aesthetics, Politics is an outstanding addition to the current renaissance in radio scholarship, and will prove rewarding to scholars of sound studies more broadly -- Neil Verma, Northwestern University
