Radio Art and Music

Culture, Aesthetics, Politics

Jarmila Mildorf, Pim Verhulst

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2020
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781498599801
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Music History & Criticism
• Index: Social Sciences

This book explores the cultural, aesthetic, and political relevance of music in radio art from its beginnings to present day. Contributors include musicologists, literary studies, and cultural studies scholars and cover radio plays, radio shows, and other programs in North American, English, Spanish, Greek, Italian, and German radio.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Radio Art and Music: An Introduction
• 1 The Making of a Nomenclature: José Iges on Radiophonic Art
• 2 Maestro, If You Please: The Radio Producer as Musician
• 3 Norman Corwin, Bernard Herrmann, and Musical Direction for Columbia Presents Corwin
• 4 “Attitudes Toward History” and the Radiophonic Compositions of Daphne Oram and the Firesign Theatre
• 5 Between Art and Promotion: The Prix Italia, Its Historical Context and Aims in the First Fifty Years 1949–1998
• 6 A Canadian Experiment in Words-as-Music: Glenn Gould’s Invention of Form in His Radio Program The Idea of North
• 7 Jewish Musical Material in a 1946 American Radio Drama: “Rachel”
• 8 The Bad Violin’s Good Politics: Music of Protest and Disavowal in The Jack Benny Program
• 9 Shifting Hues of Blackface: Performance of Race in Radio Adaptations of Holiday Inn (1942)
• 10 Voicing the Other World: Music and the Victorian Occult in Mid-Century American Radio Drama
• 11 Collective Responsibility in Ingeborg Bachmann and Hans Werner Henze’s Radio Drama The Cicadas
• 12 Music and Politics in the BBC Radio Adaptation of Alan Bennett’s The Madness of George III
• 13 Adapting the Soundtrack of Revolution: Tom Stoppard’s Rock ’n’ Roll from Stage to Radio
• 14 Children’s Songs as Sociopolitical Comment in the Greek Radio Show Edo Lilipoupoli
• Index
• About the Contributors