Early US radio and the modern culture of sound

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1. See, for instance, Michele Hilmes’ Network Nations (2012) or the volume Transnationalizing Radio Research (2018), edited by Golo Föllmer and Alec Badenoch. For a comparable study of early music work in television production with a strong sense of place, see Murray Forman’s One Night on TV is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television (2012).

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Carolyn Birdsall

Carolyn Birdsall is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her publications include Nazi Soundscapes (2012), Doing Memory Research (co-edited with Danielle Drozdzewski, 2018) and “Listening to the Archives: Sound Data in the Humanities and Sciences” (co-edited with Viktoria Tkaczyk, 2019). She’s currently leading a five-year project, TRACE (Tracking Radio Archival Collections in Europe, 1930-1960), which is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.