... for Electronic Arts Fluxus new media radio video art performance art queer sound noise James Hansen: Can you speak about your background and how you got into sound and noise? Lorelei d’Andriole: I’m from Oklahoma City and I got into sound through music. I was playing in community...

...Matt St. John; Lauren E. Wilks; Stephanie Sapienza; Eric Hoyt This article focuses on a 1968 documentary radio series titled Seeds of Discontent and a recently established archival collection that centers on it. Created by Hartford Smith Jr., a Black social worker and professor in Detroit...

...Joshua A. Mitchell Throughout the 20th century, the prison radio and the prison PA system differed in the auditory experiences they brought to imprisoned listeners, but each technology was scrutinized by penal staffs for its potential to meet institutional goals. One common assertion—often...

...Jacek Smolicki This essay explores cultural, environmental, material, and political testimonies of the Gleiwitz radio tower constructed in the 1930s near the border of Germany and Poland (today Gliwice). As the tallest wooden structure of its kind in Europe, the mast has over the last century...

...Michael Palmese This article presents an examination of the World Ear Project, a radio program developed by Charles Amirkhanian and Richard Friedman in August 1970 in Berkeley, California, that reframes the birth of acoustic ecology, conventionally viewed as a discipline created by R. Murray...

...Brian Kane Broadcast from Havana, Cuba, but intended for audiences in the United States, Radio Free Dixie was the work of the civil rights leader Robert F. Williams. Airing from 1962 until 1966, the program carefully used music, news, and commentary to convey a militant message of armed self...

...Joan L. Clinefelter Throughout the 1950s, the American propaganda radio station RIAS Berlin transformed women’s radio into an anti-communist medium designed to enlist German housewives into the Cold War. Based in West Berlin, RIAS—Radio in the American Sector—broadcast a full array of shows deep...

... to the reconstruction work after the Great Kantô Earthquake (1923) and the spread of the use of radios, phonographs, and loudspeakers. Within a few years, public opinion against noise had been formed by a coalition of journalists, police, the judiciary, engineers, academics, and municipal officials. This section...

...Sonja D. Williams In January 1994, Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music, a first-time radio series collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and National Public Radio, began airing on hundreds of NPR affiliate stations throughout America. An ambitious and influential series...