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Radio Journal:International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media - Volume 8, Issue 1, 2010
Volume 8, Issue 1, 2010
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Another radio is possible: Thai community radio from the grass roots to the global
More LessAccess to the radio spectrum most often has become tightly controlled by nation-states and military bodies around the world, available to citizens only under stringent licensing and leasing frameworks. This article examines one aspect of the growing global community radio movement which makes an alternative ownership claim on this resource. Taking place at a small-scale grass-roots level, this movement is nevertheless worthy of attention from media scholars. By considering the example of community radio development in Thailand, we can see this movement represents a new communications paradigm in formation, one that fundamentally alters the manner in which the broadcast frequency spectrum is monopolized by state and commercial interests and, consequently, the manner in which people will allow themselves to be governed, as radio becomes a vehicle for marginalized communities to stake a claim in territory heretofore unquestionably ruled by the centre.
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Reincarnating clandestine radio in post-independent Zimbabwe
More LessThis article analyses the re-emergence of clandestine radio in post-independence Zimbabwe, and how it has become an important tool for disseminating alternative viewpoints in an environment where democratic communicative space is restricted. The article focuses specifically on SW Radio Africa, one of the major clandestine radio stations that have been beaming into Zimbabwe since 2001. It argues, based on analysis of this radio station, that by suppressing clandestine radio through jamming signals and intimidating listeners, the government has inadvertently raised people's curiosity and made these stations more visible and more popular than they otherwise would have been. Further, it argues that Zimbabweans are not passive victims of state propaganda. Rather, they continue to devise new communicative spaces outside the dominant state media empire and access alternative viewpoints from an array of emerging platforms.
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Pirate radio in the 1980s: a case study of Thessaloniki's pirate radio
More LessThis study attempts to shed light on the profile of Greek radio pirates in the 1980s. The study draws on a series of 34 in-depth interviews with radio pirates of that period in Thessaloniki, a city of particular interest for the growth and development of the pirate radio phenomenon in Greece. Some of the most important topics on which the interviews focused were respondents' educational, social and economic backgrounds, besides exploring the definition of a pirate and the motives for broadcasting pirate radio. Qualitative analysis was used to explain the results of the interviews.
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Smooth jazz: a case study in the relationships between commercial radio formats, audience research and music production
By Simon BarberThis article examines the relationships between three areas of activity within the music and media industries: the construction of music formats for commercial radio programming, audience research and music production. With specific reference to two companies located in the United States, this research explores some of the ways in which these practices impact upon one another and help to develop the organization of music genres into discrete, strictly controlled, radio formats. In order to illustrate the relationship between music formatting and audience research, this work makes a case study of Broadcast Architecture, a Los Angeles-based research and consultancy firm. Prominent in the radio industry since 1988, Broadcast Architecture is the primary exponent of the smooth jazz format and a leader in audience research technologies. To examine the relationships between Broadcast Architecture and the production of music used in smooth jazz radio programming, the case study considers the work of GRP Records, a popular jazz label established in 1982. The findings of this research are used as a basis for asking questions about the relationships between musical creativity, radio programming and audience tastes. The case of GRP Records, which has existed as both an independent jazz label and a subsidiary of major labels, illustrates how record companies can cater to the needs of radio formats and therefore the ways in which radio formats can exert influence upon the music available in the record market. The primary research presented herein draws upon a series of interviews with the founders and senior executives of Broadcast Architecture plus the founders, staff and artists affiliated with GRP Records.
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Reviews
Authors: Jason Loviglio and Andrew CrisellRadio's Revolution: Don Hollenbeck's CBS Views the Press, Edited and with an Introduction by Loren Ghiglione (2008) Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 188 pp., ISBN 978-0-8032-6758-9 (hbk), 40.
Key Concepts in Radio Studies, Hugh Chignell (2009) London: Sage Publications, 191 pp. ISBN 978-1-4129-35166 (hbk), 60.00 ISBN 978-1-4129-35173 (pbk), 19.99
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Volume 21 (2023)
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Volume 20 (2022)
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Volume 19 (2021)
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Volume 18 (2020)
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Volume 17 (2019)
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Volume 16 (2018)
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Volume 15 (2017)
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Volume 14 (2016)
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Volume 13 (2015)
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Volume 12 (2014)
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Volume 11 (2013)
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