Radio Cultures examines the manifold ways in which radio has influenced the nation's social and cultural environment since its inception nearly a century ago. Written by leading scholars in the field, chapters address a wide range of topics, including how this powerful medium has impacted and affected non-mainstream segments of the population throughout its history and how these repressed and neglected groups have employed radio to counter and overcome discrimination and bias. The use of the audio medium for political, economic, and religious purposes is comprehensively probed and analyzed in this insightful and innovative volume. Radio Cultures examines the manifold ways in which radio has influenced the nation¿s social and cultural environment since its inception nearly a century ago. Written by leading scholars in the field, chapters address a wide range of topics, including how this powerful medium has impacted and affected non-mainstream segments of the population throughout its history and how these repressed and neglected groups have employed radio to counter and overcome discrimination and bias. The use of the audio medium for political, economic, and religious purposes is comprehensively probed and analyzed in this insightful and innovative volume. Foreword xi Frank Chorba Introduction 1(8) Michael C. Keith Part I. Listening to Other Voices Radio's Covenant: The Regulatory Failure of Minority Ownership of Broadcast Radio Facilities 9(14) Susan Brinson Speaking in Our Own Tongues: Linguistic Minority Radio in the United States 23(24) Donald Browne Heard It on the X: Border Radio As Public Discourse and the Latino Legacy in Popular Music 47(18) Roberto Avant-Mier Voices on the Rez: Native American Radio 65(12) Bruce Smith Speaking for Themselves: How Radio Brought Women into the Public Sphere 77(18) Donna Halper The Howl That Could Not Be Silenced: The Rise of Queer Radio 95(18) Phylis Johnson Underground Radio: A Voice from the Purple Haze 113(18) Larry Miller Part II. Pulpits, Politics, and Public Interests Speaking of God, Listening for Grace: Christian Radio and Its Audiences 131(20) Tona J. Hangen Broadcasting Unionism: Labor and FM Radio in Postwar America 151(20) Elizabeth Fones-Wolf The Public's Radio: All Things on the Dial 171(18) Corey Funtoff Indecency and Radio Programming, 1927 to 2000: A Reflection of Their Times 189(12) Louise Benjamin Band of Hate: Rancor on the Radio 201(16) Robert L. Hilliarjd Talk Nation: Turn Down Tour Radio 217(20) Peter Laufer Political Waves: Radio and Politics, 1920--1940 237(24) Douglas Craig Community Renegades: Micro-radio and the Unlicensed Radio Movement 261(26) Lawrence C. Soley Part III. Archives, Curricula, and Afterthoughts Librarians of the Airwaves: Reading in the Ether 287(12) Cindy Welch Radio and Culture: The Modern Curriculum 299(6) Barbara Calabrese Writing About Radio: A Survey of Cultural Studies in Radio 305(16) Michael C. Keith Slow Fade? Seeking Radio s Future 321(10) Christopher H. Sterling Contributors 331(4) Index 335