Understanding Radio (Studies in Culture and Communication). This item is unavailable.Understanding Radio (Studies in Culture and Communication)

260 pages. cover worn '. a highly imaginative and often very entertaining book . which . prob ably says more than any other available text about the limitations and possibili ties of present forms of radio.' Professor Laurie Taylor on the first edition of Understanding RadioUnderstanding Radio is a fully revised edition of a k ey radio textbook. Andrew Crisell explores how radio processes genres such as ne ws, drama and comedy in highly distinctive ways, and how the listener's use of t he medium has important implications for audience studies. He explains why the s ound medium, even more than television, has played such a crucial role in the de velopment of modern popular culture.The book also introduces students to the broadcasting landscape in a time of great change for national and local radi o provision. Understanding Radio will be essential reading both to students of m edia and to those with a practical involvement in programme production. This new edition includes:a revised history of radio bringing the reader right up to datea brand new chapter on 'talk-and-music' radio, the format adopted by many of the new stations.Andrew Criselllectures in communicati on and media studies at the University of Sunderland. He has written widely on r adio and co-founded Wear FM, winner of the 1992 Sony 'Radio Station of the Year' award.…