46 unsorted boxes in a damp basement contained the “archives” of one of Australia’s least orthodox media institutions. Amazingly, from those daunting vestiges, Liz Giuffre and Demetrius Romeo wove a compelling book about 2SER and its colourful people. Also a window onto the world outside as it changes.
The long-awaited new book from the Coodabeen Champions with stories and photos from over four decades of truly unique Australian entertainment featuring transcripts and memorabilia of memorable moments in Australian Rules Football through the years, all told in the humorous style the Coodabeens are known and loved for.
Studs Terkel was an American icon who had no use for America's cult of celebrity. He was a leftist who valued human beings over political dogma. In scores of books and thousands of radio and television broadcasts, Studs paid attention - and respect - to "ordinary" human beings of all classes and colours
From Archibald MacLeish to David Sedaris, radio storytelling has long borrowed from the world of literature, yet the narrative radio work of well-known writers and others is a story that has not been told before. And when the literary aspects of specific programs such as The War of the Worlds or Sorry, Wrong Number were considered, scrutiny was ......
Once a lively presence on radio, jazz now finds itself relegated to satellite broadcasters and low-watt stations at the edge of the dial. Aaron J. Johnson examines jazz radio from the advent of Black radio in 1948 to its near extinction from the commercial dial after 1980. Even in jazz's heyday, programmers and DJs excluded many styles and ......
Once a lively presence on radio, jazz now finds itself relegated to satellite broadcasters and low-watt stations at the edge of the dial. Aaron J. Johnson examines jazz radio from the advent of Black radio in 1948 to its near extinction from the commercial dial after 1980. Even in jazz's heyday, programmers and DJs excluded many styles and ......
The History of Vatican Radio from Its Origins to World War II
The story of the origin of Vatican Radio provides a unique look at the history of World War II The book will offer the first wide-ranging study on the history of Vatican Radio from its origins (1931) to the end of Pius 12's pontificate (1958) based on unpublished sources. The opening of the Secret Vatican Archives on the records regarding Pius ......
The History of Vatican Radio from Its Origins to World War II
The story of the origin of Vatican Radio provides a unique look at the history of World War II The book will offer the first wide-ranging study on the history of Vatican Radio from its origins (1931) to the end of Pius 12's pontificate (1958) based on unpublished sources. The opening of the Secret Vatican Archives on the records regarding Pius ......
Bands like R.E.M., U2, Public Enemy, and Nirvana found success as darlings of college radio, but the extraordinary influence of these stations and their DJs on musical culture since the 1970s was anything but inevitable. As media deregulation and political conflict over obscenity and censorship transformed the business and politics of culture, ......
