Announcement of national conference for the Radio Preservation Task Force of the Library of Congress, February 25-27, 2016.
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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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Stephanie Sapienza, Project Manager at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), advocates for why the audio and paper materials of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB)'s radio collection - housed at the University of Maryland and the University of Wisconsin-Madison - need to be integrated online to maximize their usefulness...
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Tags: #RPTF, academia, archives, digital humanities, educational media, Library of American Broadcasting, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, media archives, media studies, metadata, MITH, NAEB, National Association of Educational Broadcasters, NPR, PBS, public radio, radio, Wisconsin Historical Society
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Brian DeShazor discusses the origins of Pacifica Radio and the archival radio series, "From the Vault." The Pacifica Radio Archives was established in 1971 to house a collection of over 60,000 reel-to-reel tapes, representing the last half of the 20th century as experienced and reported on by Pacifica Radio.
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Tags: #RPTF, archives, From the Vault, KPFA, KPFK, Lewis Hill, media history, National Public Radio, Pacifica Foundation, Pacifica Radio, Pacifica Radio Archives, public radio, radio, Radio Preservation Task Force, social justice
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Bruce Lenthall discusses the challenges and opportunities of teaching radio history to a generation of students for whom even the metaphors we often use to think about radio's early history no longer resonate.
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Tags: #RPTF, Amos 'n' Andy, broadcasting, media history, media industries, media studies, network system, Othering, pedagogy, Radio Preservation Task Force, radio studies, War of the Worlds
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Laura Schnitker writes about the importance of saving college radio archives, as college stations have the built-in resources to both save their materials and provide public access to them.
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Tags: #RPTF, American Pie, archival preservation, College radio, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Don McLean, FCC, media history, NPR, popular music, public radio, radio, Radio Preservation Task Force, sound recording history, university archives, University of Maryland, WMUC, Woodstock
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Peter Schaefer writes about the public face of radio preservation, making a case for acknowledging what's been lost to the ages while simultaneously showcasing what's been found.
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Tags: #RPTF, 1970s, Google Scholar, media archives, media history, New York City, Nights in Latin America, Pru Devon, Radio Preservation Task Force, radio studies, WNYC, WQXR
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How did post-World War II female detectives balance authority and femininity on the radio? Catherine Martin writes about knowledge of urban geography as the source of a detective's power in "Candy Matson."
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Tags: #RPTF, Candy Matson, feminist media studies, Howard Duff, Natalie Masters, Radio Preservation Task Force, radio studies, Sam Spade, YUkon 2-8209
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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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Eleanor Patterson explores the history of hobbyists who collected and traded recordings of classic radio programs in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, considering the cultural significance of a US bootleg radio culture.
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Tags: #RPTF, fandom, hi-fi, old time radio, 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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Locating and making publically accessible radio broadcasts and their supporting archival documents mitigates the generalized understandings that radio broadcasting’s past was a “mass” media of little variety, low quality and limited engagement.
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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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