Opis: Rise of American Radio 6 vols - C Sterling

This new Major Work from Routledge is a six-volume facsimile collection featuring long-out-of-print articles, documents and books that shed light on the key developments in radio in the USA - most of which took place in the 1920s and 1930s. The volumes cover most aspects of radio broadcasting in its formative years. Selections include professional journal articles, descriptive and critical pieces from more general periodicals, government publications, short books and industry publications. Each volume includes an introduction by the editor, placing the chosen reprinted materials in their larger historical and intellectual context.Volume 1: American Wireless to 1920 Introduction: 'American Radio's Golden Age' Radio Reading: Sources on American Radio to 1945 Introduction to Volume 1: 'Innovating the Technology' 1. "Wireless Telegraphy "by Richard Kerr (New York: Scribner's, 1898) 2. 'Inventors and Inventions', by Charles Henry Sewall, "Wireless Telegraphy: Its Origins, Development, Inventions, and Apparatus "(New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1903), pp. 91--123 3. "The Development of Wireless Telegraphy "(New York: American DeForest Wireless Telegraph Co., 1904) 4. 'Wireless Telephony', by A. Frederick Collins, "Wireless Telegraphy: Its History, Theory and Practice "(New York: McGraw, 1905), pp. 285--97 5. 'The Audion: A New Receiver for Wireless Telegraphy', by Lee de Forest, "Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers "(vol. 25, 1906), pp. 719--47 6. 'Wireless Telephony', by Reginald A. Fessenden, "Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers "(vol. 27, 1908), pp. 1283--358 7. 'Some Recent Developments in the Audion Receiver', by Edwin H. Armstrong, "Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers "(vol. 3, 1915), pp. 215--47 8. 'United States Radio Development', by Robert H. Marriott, "Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers "(vol. 5, May 1917), pp. 179--97 Volume 2: Radio's Changing Technology, 1920--45 Introduction: 'Improving Radio' A. Specific Innovations 1. The Story of the First Trans-Atlantic Short Wave Message [1921], "Proceedings of the Radio Club of America "(1BCG Commemorative Issue, October 1950), pp. 1--65 2. 'Short Waves: Historical Review', by Charles R. Leutz and Robert B. Gable, "Short Waves "(Altoona, PA: C. R. Leutz Inc., 1934), pp. 11--32 3. 'The Story of the Super-Heterodyne', by Edwin H. Armstrong, "Radio Broadcast "(July 1924), pp. 198--207 4. 'A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation', by Edwin Howard Armstrong, "Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers "(vol. 24, May 1936), pp. 689--740 5. 'Evolution of Frequency Modulation', by Edwin Howard Armstrong, "Electrical Engineering "(Dec. 1940), pp. 485--93 B. General Surveys 6. 'Keeping the Stars and Stripes in the Ether', by Stanford C. Hooper, "Radio Broadcast "(June 1922), pp. 127--32 7. 'Ten Years of Broadcasting', by C. W. Horn, "Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers "(vol. 18, Mar. 1931), pp. 356--76 8. "Broadcast Network Service "(New York: AT&T Long Lines Department, 1934) 9. 'The Origins and Development of Radiotelephony', by Lloyd Espenschied, "Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers" (vol. 25, Sept. 1937), pp. 1101--23 10. "Patent Policies of [the] Radio Corporation of America "by Otto S. Schairer (New York: RCA Institutes Press, 1939), 92 pp. Volume 3: The Business of Radio Introduction: 'Creating an Industry' 1. 'Who Will Ultimately Do the Broadcasting?', "Radio Broadcast "(Apr. 1923), pp. 522--6 2. 'Who Owns Our Broadcasting Stations?', by Dudley Siddall, "Radio Broadcast "(Feb. 1925), pp. 706--10 3. 'How Much it Costs to Broadcast', by Austin C. Lescarboura, "Radio Broadcast "(Sept. 1926), pp. 367--71 4. 'Radio Broadcasting: The New Goodwill Medium', and 'Gaging the Value of Broadcasting', chs. I and XVI in "Using Radio in Sales Promotion: A Book for Advertisers, Station Managers, and Broadcasting Artists "by Edgar H. Felix (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1927), pp. 1--10, and 245--58 5. "NBC Networks: Facts and Figures "(New York: NBC, 1928) 6. "NBC, Broadcast Advertising "(New York: NBC, 1929), pp. 77--90 7. "Radio as an Advertising Medium "(New York: NBC, 1934), pp. 1--40 8. "U.S. Census of Business: Radio Broadcasting "(Washington: US Dept. of Commerce, 1935) 9. 'Production Trends in the Radio Broadcasting Industry', in Thomas T. Eoyang, "An Economic Study of the Radio Industry in the United States of America "(New York: Columbia University Press, 1936), pp. 151--77 10. 'The American System' and 'The Industry Today' by the FCC Engineering Department Report on Social and Economic Data (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1938), pp. 9--44 11. "Report on Chain Broadcasting "by the Federal Communications Commission (Washington: Government Printing Office, May 1941), pp. 1--89 Volume 4: Radio Programming to 1945 Introduction: 'Radio's Programmes' 1. "Radio in Education: The Ohio School of the Air and Other Experiments "by Armstrong Perry (New York: Payne Fund, 1929), pp. 1--77 2. 'Program Practice: Types of Programs Broadcast Over Network Key Stations', and 'Program Practice: Additional Program Considerations, and an Evaluation of the American Program Structure', by Herman S. Hettinger, in "A Decade of Radio Advertising "(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1933), pp. 212--60 3. 'Suggestions for Radio Playwrights: Campana's "First Nighter" (Friday, NBC) and "Grand Hotel" (Sunday, NBC)', by Aubrey Moore and Wallace Mimeograph, c. 1936 4. Transradio Press, 'Caterer to the Fifth Estate', (New York: Transradio Press Services Inc., May 1936) 5. 'Radio I: A $140,000,000 Art', and 'Radio II: A $45,000,000 Talent Bill', Fortune (XVII:5, May 1938), pp. 47--57, 112--14, 117, 122 6. 'Radio Mobilizes', from "I Broadcast the Crisis "by H. V. Kaltenborn (New York: Random House, 1938), pp. 3--12 7. "The Educational Aims and Practices of the National and Columbia Broadcasting Systems "by Wyn W. Bird (Seattle: University of Washington Extension Series No. 10, Aug. 1939) 8. 'Trends in Radio Programs', by Kenneth G. Bartlett, "Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science "(vol. 213, Jan. 1941), pp. 15--25 9. 'The White House and the War', "This is War Broadcast No. 2 "by Norman Corwin, et al. (all four networks, 21 Feb. 1942) 10. 'Radio: War Ends Rich Era and Brings Fresh Problems', "Life "(27 Apr. 1942), pp. 69--79 11. 'The World of the Daytime Serial', by Rudolf Arnheim, in Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Frank Stanton (eds.), "Radio Research 1942--1943 "(New York: Duell Sloan & Pearce, 1944), pp. 34--85 Volume 5: Radio's Audiences to 1945 Introduction: 'Listening to Radio' 1. "A Study of Radio Broadcasting "by Daniel Starch (New York: NBC, 1928) 2. 'Radio', by Malcolm Willey and Stuart Rice, "Communication Agencies and Social Life "(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1933), pp. 186--209 3. 'The Listener's Tastes and Habits', by Hadley Cantril and Gordon W. Allport, "The Psychology of Radio "(New York: Harper, 1935), pp. 85--106 4. 'Radio Takes to the Road', by NBC (New York: NBC, 1936) 5. 'An Analysis of Radio-Listening in Autos', by the CBS Research Department (New York: CBS, 1936) 6. 'Radio Listening and Automobiles', by Edward A. Suchman, in 'Radio Research and Applied Psychology', special issue of "The Journal of Applied Psychology "23:1 (Feb. 1939), pp. 148--57 7. "How Radio Measures its Audience: Four Discussions by Research Authorities "(New York: CBS, 1939) 8. "Social Stratification of the Radio Audience "by Malcolm Beville (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Office of Radio Research, 1939) 9. 'The Nature and Extent of the Panic' by Hadley Cantril, "The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic "(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1940), pp. 47--63 10. "Radio Audience Measurement "by Matthew N. Chappell and C. E. Hooper (New York: Stephen Daye, 1944), pp. 1--10, 61--137 Volume 6: Regulating Radio to 1945 Introduction: 'Regulating Radio' A: Early Regulation (to 1927) 1. Radio Act of 1912 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1912) 2. 'Regulations Governing Radio Communication', Department of Commerce and Labor (Government Printing Office, 1912) 3. 'Report of the [First] Washington Radio Conference', "Radio "(Apr. 1922), 4. 'Recommendations of the [Second] National Radio Conference', "Radio Service Bulletin "(2 Apr. 1923), pp. 9--13 5. "Recommendations "["of the Third Radio Conference"]" for Regulation of Radio", US Department of Commerce (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1924) 6. "Proceedings of the Fourth National Radio Conference", US Department of Commerce (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1926) B: Radio Act of 1927 7. "The Law of Radio Communication "by Stephen Davis (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1927), pp. 1--80 8. "First Annual Report "by the Federal Radio Commission (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1927) 9. "The Federal Radio Commission: Its History, Activities and Organization "by Laurence F. Schmeckebier (Washington: Brookings, 1932) C: FM Radio 1940--5 10. 'FM Broadcasting', by the FCC (Washington, DC: GPO, 1940--1)

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Tytuł: Rise of American Radio 6 vols
Autor: C Sterling
Producent: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415380836
Rok produkcji: 2006
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