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Media and the Movement: Activist Community Radio in the American South Joshua Clark Davis / University of Baltimore Seth Kotch / University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
In this column for the Radio Preservation Task Force with the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress Special Issue, Joshua Clark Davis and Seth Kotch discuss their Playbacks Station project in Digital Innovation Lab project at UNC Chapel Hill , which makes hearing and accessing oral histories — such as those of social protest community radio in the South — more feasible.
Read moreWord Warrior Richard Durham: Crusading Radio Scriptwriter Sonja Williams / Howard University
In this column for the Radio Preservation Task Force with the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress Special Issue, Sonja Williams explores the career of Richard Durham, pioneering African American radio scriptwriter and versatile creative force.
Read moreCan We Invent a Field Called “Radio Preservation Studies”? Carolyn Birdsall / University of Amsterdam
In this column for the Radio Preservation Task Force with the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress Special Issue, Carolyn Birdsall makes an argument for the creation of the field of Radio Preservation Studies.
Read moreThe Informal Economy of the Amateur Archive: Collectors as Cultural Intermediaries Shawn VanCour / New York University
In this column for the Radio Preservation Task Force with the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress Special Issue, Shawn VanCour discusses the moral economy of bootlegging and amateur collecting as archiving.
Read more“Selling” America to Americans: New Deal Radio and Media Education Joy Hayes / University of Iowa
In this column for the Radio Preservation Task Force with the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress Special Issue, Joy Hayes examines the blurring of entertainment and education in New Deal radio programs.
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