Music, Radio and the Public Sphere: The Aesthetics of Democracy

By Charles Fairchild

Book Overview

Radio, the most widely used medium in the world, is a dominant mediator of musical meaning. Through a combination of critical analysis, interdisciplinary theory and ethnographic writing about community radio, this book provides a novel theorization of democratic aesthetics, with important implications for the study of old and new media alike.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349351288
• ISBN13: 9781349351282
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"