Topics include 1940s radio suspense drama, quiz shows, American propogandists for Axis Powers, The Green Hornet and race, black liberation radio, NPR, and Christian right and radio. Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi Rethinking Radio 1(20) Michele Hilmes Radio in the Great Depression: Promotional Culture, Public Service, and Propaganda 21(20) Kate Lacey Critical Reception: Public Intellectuals Decry Depression-Era Radio, Mass Culture, and Modern America 41(22) Bruce Lenthall ``Your Voice Came in Last Night...But I Thought It Sounded a Little Scared'': Rural Radio Listening and ``Talking Back'' During the Progressive Era in Wisconsin, 1920-1932 63(26) Derek Vaillant Vox Pop: Network Radio and the Voice of the People 89(24) Jason Loviglio Man of the Hour: Walter A. Maier and Religion by Radio on the Lutheran Hour 113(22) Tona Hangen ``The Tendency to Deprave and Corrupt Morals'': Regulation and Irregular Sexuality in Golden Age Radio Comedy 135(22) Matthew Murray Poisons, Potions, and Profits: Radio Rebels and the Origins of the Consumer Movement 157(26) Kathy M. Newman Scary Women and Scarred Men: Suspense, Gender Trouble, and Postwar Change, 1942-1950 183(26) Allison McCracken Radio's ``Cultural Front,'' 1938-1948 209(22) Judith E. Smith Radio and the Political Discourse of Racial Equality 231(26) Barbara Savage A Dark(ened) Figure on the Airwaves: Race, Nation, and the Green Hornet 257(20) Alexander Russo Expatriate American Radio Propagandists in the Employ of the Axis Powers 277(24) William F. O'Connor Now it Can be Told: The Influence of the United States Occupation on Japanese Radio 301(18) Susan Smulyan Before the Scandals: The Radio Precedents of the Quiz Show Genre 319(24) Jason Mittell ``The Case of the Radio-Active Housewife'': Relocating Radio in the Age of Television 343(24) Jennifer Hyland Wang Radio Redefines Itself, 1947-1962 367(22) Eric Rothenbuhler Tom McCourt Turn on...Tune In: The Rise and Demise of Commercial Underground Radio 389(16) Michael C. Keith Lead Us Not into Temptation: American Public Radio in a World of Infinite Possibilities 405(18) Jack Mitchell Radio by and for the Public: The Death and Resurrection of Low-Power Radio 423(28) Paul Rilsmandel Technostruggles: Black Liberation Radio 451(10) John Fiske Scanning the ``Stations of the Cross'': Christian Right Radio in Post-Fordist Society 461(24) Paul Apostolidis Letting the Boys be Boys: Talk Radio, Male Hysteria, and Political Discourse in the 1980s 485(20) Susan J. Douglas Radio's Digital Future: Preserving the Public Interest in the Age of New Media 505(26) Michael P. McCauley Notes on Contributors 531(6) Index 537