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Listening back: materiality, mediatisation and method in radio history

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posted on 2023-06-10, 00:49 authored by Kate LaceyKate Lacey
‘Listening Back’ explores how radio’s mediatisation of a permanently unfolding perpetual present transformed the modern experience of time and with it the tools and techniques of historiography itself. Methodologically, it is about revisiting radio historiography: listening back to become aware of things that were missed on first hearing. Conceptually, as a phrase associated with recorded sound, ‘listening back’ acts as a reminder that listening happens in real time, in the now, opening an experiential and theoretical gap between the act of listening and the sounds of the past. Experientially, ‘listening back’ is newly prominent in digital radio, as broadcasters and listeners each collapse the distinction between live output and the archive. In short, the chapter offers a media archaeological approach that puts listening back at the core of radio’s historical narrative. It deals in fragments and associations to re-present (to make present again) and reconfigure (between past and present) the materiality and mediatisation of listening through aspects of radio’s past, and of its here and now.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Publisher

Routledge

Pages

502.0

Book title

The Routledge companion to radio and podcast studies

Place of publication

Oxford

ISBN

9780367432638

Series

Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions

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  • Media and Film Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Jason Loviglio, Mia Lindgren

Legacy Posted Date

2021-09-01

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2021-08-31

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