Music Radio

Mads Krogh is Associate Professor at the School of Communication and Culture, section for Musicology, Aarhus University, Denmark.Morten Michelsen is Associate Professor in the Section for Musicology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.Steen Kaargaard Nielsen is Associate Professor at the School of Communication and Culture, section for Musicology, Aarhus University, Denmark.Iben Have is Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, in the Section for Media and Journalism Studies.

Music Radio offers valuable theoretical insight and workable analytical approaches to a highly under-researched field — considering the enormous impact of music radio in history right until today. Reflecting the diversity of radio cultures' dependency on infrastructures, media regulation, music markets and audience indentities, the book qualifies for teaching and scholarly purposes alike.

• IntroductionComplexities of Genre, of Mediation and of CommunityMads Krogh and Morten MichelsenSection I: Music Radio Ethnographies1. Migrant Radio, Community and (New) Fado: The Case of Radio ALFAPedro Moreira, Universidade Nova, Portugal2. On Sonic Assemblage: Indigenous Radio and the Management of HeteroglossiaDaniel Fisher, University of California, Berkeley, USA3. Voicing Otherness on Air: Theorizing Radio Through the Figure of VoiceKristine Ringsager, Aalborg University, Denmark, and Sandra Lori Pedersen, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkSection II: Music Radio and Nation Building4. Broadcasting the New Nation: Radio and the Intentions Behind National Genres in Latin America Marcio Pinho and Julio Mendivil, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt5. The Edufication and Musicalization of Radio: CKUA, “Good Music,” and “Uplifting Taste”Brian Fauteux, University of Alberta, Canada6. Mediated Soundscapes: Representations of the National in the Soundscape Call-in Programme Äänien iltaMeri Kytö, University of Tampere, Finland7. Dispositives of Sound: Folk Music Collections, Radio and the National Imagination, 1890s–1960sJohannes Müske, University of Zürich, SwitzerlandSection III: Music Radio: Genre and Mediation8. Mediatization – Radiofication – MusicalizationAlf Björnberg, University of Gothenburg, Sweden9. Formats, Genres and Abstraction: On Musico-Generic Assemblages in the Context of Format Radio ProductionMads Krogh, Aarhus University, Denmark10. Music Radio’s Mediations of the Music-Cultural High/Low Divide Before the 1980sMorten Michelsen, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkSection IV: Music Radio Convergences11. Format, the Literature of American Popular Music and Mr CrumpEric Weisbard, University of Alabama, USA12. MTV and the Remediation of FM radioAriane Holzbach, Federal Fluminense University, Brazil13. Music Radio as a Format Remediated for the Stream–Based Music UseAndreas Ægidius, University of Southern Denmark