Announcement of national conference for the Radio Preservation Task Force of the Library of Congress, February 25-27, 2016.
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Tags: #RPTF, academic conference, Alan Lomax, Christopher Sterling, Library of Congress, media history, National Recording Preservation Board, NPR, Pacifica, prometheus radio, public radio, Radio Preservation Task Force, radio studies, smithsonian, smithsonian folklife, sound studies, studs terkel, third coast
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Laura LaPlaca writes about the material resilience of broadcast history from the perspective of a collector and archivist, discussing the importance of acknowledging the stuff that radio and television leave behind, especially in the face of an overwhelming emphasis on the "ephemerality" of these media.
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Tags: #RPTF, collecting, Eugenia Farrar, Lee de Forest, Library of Congress, materiality, media archives, media history, Oliver Wyckoff, Radio History, Radio Preservation Task Force, television history
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As part of a forthcoming history of the radio feature Michele Hilmes shares her discovery of the supposedly lost Langston Hughes radio play, "The Man Who Went to War."
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Tags: Alan Lomax, ballad opera, BBC, D.G. Bridson, Langston Hughes, Library of Congress, media history, media studies, Michel Foucault, Network Nations, Norman Corwin, Paul Robeson, radio, Radio Feature, Radio Preservation Task Force, soundwork, The Man Who Went to War, Transatlantic Call, World War II
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What makes technology educational? Brian Gregory prompts this inquiry in his consideration of how Edgar Dale's ideas about sensory learning fit into the history of educational radio and ed tech.
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Tags: #RPTF, broadcasting, Edgar Dale, educational media, FCC, Library of Congress, National Recording Preservation Board, Packard Center, radio, Radio Preservation Task Force
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Broadcasters are paying top-dollar for the last useable scraps of the FM spectrum. John Anderson explores the booming market in translator stations and their implications for diversity on the dial.
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Tags: #RPTF, broadcasting, FCC, HD Radio, industry, Library of Congress, LPFM, National Recording Preservation Board, Packard Center, radio, Radio Preservation Task Force
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In the aftermath of the gun violence of January 2011, Tucson’s KXCI community radio responded with music and locally-produced pubic affairs podcasts. The University of Arizona's Mary Beth Haralovich explores how KXCI’s “real people, real radio” format helped people to grieve and to heal.
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Tags: Gabrielle Giffords, KXCI, Library of Congress, National Recording Preservation Board, Packard Center, radio, Radio Preservation Task Force, Tucson
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Josh Shepperd and Chris Sterling discuss a new national preservation initiative by the Library of Congress.
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Tags: #RPTF, @radiotaskforce, cultural history, cultural studies, Library of Congress, media history, media studies, National Recording Preservation Board, OTR, political economy, Radio Preservation Task Force
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