Music and the Broadcast Experience 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 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 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.

About the Author
CB: Associate Professor, Communication Studies and Music, McMaster University. Author of Victory Through Harmony: The BBC and Popular Music in World War II (OUP 2011).JD: Associate Professor and Supervisor of Graduate Studies, School for Studies in Art and Culture: Music, Carleton University. Editor or co-editor oif books about Wagner (Pendragon), Liszt (Pendragon), and Peter Cornelius (Schott), and guest editor of special issues of the 19th Century Music Review and Canadian University Music Review. Advisory Board member for the Grove Dictionary of American Music.ST: Composer, arranger, theatre director, musical director, and academic, specializing in Canadian musical theatre. Orchestrator and composer for film and TV; resident musical director of The Thousand Islands Playhouse. He has taught music history, theory, ear training, performance and composition at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, where he organized the Over the Waves international conference on music in/and broadcastin

Reviews
This collection of 14 essays exploring the relationship between music and broadcasting by academics from the world of music and media studies. The articles are very eclectic, covering such a disparate areas as opera, sound effects, jazz, Yoko Ono and music in prisons. * David Harris, Communication (Journal of BDXC) Nov 17. *
The editors of this volume have brought together a fine selection of the leading scholars of music and media studies. Together, they have produced a very readable and up to date book about the constantly changing interface between radio and music which began in the 1920s and is still evolving today through the role of new media. * David Harris, Radio User *



Book Information
ISBN 9780199314713
Author Christina Baade
Format Paperback
Page Count 368
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 524g
Dimensions(mm) 233mm * 156mm * 21mm