...Martijn Oosterbaan This article explores the ways in which Pentecostal media, especially electro-acoustic media, are integrated in the everyday life of a favela in Rio de Janeiro. It argues that the popularity of Pentecostal radio has to be understood in relation to the sociocultural meaning...

...Terrion L. Williamson This article uses the occasion of the Don Imus dustup in 2007, in which the radio shock jock became the subject of intense public censure after referring to the Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hos” on air, to consider both the ramifications and the conditions...

...Sage Gerson Abstract In a moment of electrified literary worldmaking, the unnamed protagonist of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man steals electricity to power the 1,369 lightbulbs and radio phonography in his subterranean refuge. Narratively and materially, electricity theft diagnoses the uneven access...

... media forms (print, radio, sound recording, and so forth) and the structure of overhearing that they enable. Paying particular attention to the ways in which the jazz musical and cinema noir converged to produce a figure of masculine sovereignty defined by a refusal to not desire in a space of racially...

... as his writings attended to the specificities of 1950s television, including the importance of stereotypes as holdovers from radio comedy, the constraints of studio shooting, the standards of script development, and the complicated reception of “common sense.” What remains now is to bring the questions...

...- puters, phones, radios, cameras, and maps line up in military readiness, with the entire assemblage backed up with onsite generators. Working in the compressed time frame between earthquake’s start and tsunami’s end, SHOA coordinates and interprets data...

.... The acoustic space of the camps could best perform as sound apparatuses. Whisper and breathing, distance and nearness, voice and hearing made the best of sense in the camps when set (as if) on a radio dial. Sound apparatuses, indeed, were at the very center of the camps’ calling and camps’ being...

... in the world for low-watt and neighborhood radio and television broadcasters. (Caracas also has dozens of low-watt radio stations, most of them located in the barrios, where population density makes even weak signals very effective.) Because of its speedy growth and its place in the national...

... of the American nerd has yet to be written, but its starting point might be in the radio amateurs of the early twentieth century, start- 50 Ron Eglash ing with teenage “wireless clubs” in the 1920s.4 In an interview with Mark Dery (1994, 192) science fiction (SF...

... it unleashing creativity and opening the door to an egalitarian future. It was CB Radio. By 1980 it was almost dead; it had collapsed under the weight of its own popularity, its channels drowned under a sea of noise and chaos. Could the Internet go the same way? —Christopher Anderson...

... scholarly legacy today. Although public radio tributes abound, this is the first full-length scholarly article to be published on Schwartz’s life and work.5 The initial dismissal of his recordings as mere “sound effects” is perhaps unsurprising in an era when hi-fi enthusiasts regularly brought...

... with Malcolm X on radio and television, precipitating Baldwin’s meeting with Elijah Muhammad in the summer of 1961—the climactic central scene in Baldwin’s 1962 “Letter from a Region of My Mind.” Malcolm X’s rhetorical and discursive presence permeates the essay as the street-corner preacher in Harlem, as does...

... the Fat Boys’ disorderliness and a pubescent LL Cool J lip-synching his hit “I Can’t Live without My Radio,” we are introduced to Nayobe, mid-song, from the inside of Def Jam’s provisional studio. She is auditioning for one of the coveted spots during...

....” And then her voice breaks off. “What was it?” She says softly, as if searching for a scattered thought. Then briskly she starts again, as if there had been no problem. “I don’t know what to say. Just listen and do as you’re told. That’s all.” She ends abruptly, the same way you would end a call on a CB radio...

... in the 1950s and 1960s. Columbia Records and US Steel heav- ily promoted the broadcast on national television and radio, and in print markets (including urban and rural markets across the South). US Steel pressed a special promotional 45-rpm recording...

... was chan- neled through the work of a state representative and famous radio talk show host, Jandir Luchesi. In his morning show, he would actually bring some of the abandonados in, pleading with and scolding his radio audi...

...- ently not satisfied with the disaster at hand, began disseminating the fear that terrorists, having succeeded in shutting down air travel and the stock market, might launch a follow-up attack using chemical or biological weapons. Whether the fear was prescient or causal, TV and radio jour- nalists...

... as a model or blueprint — that is, a rationale that connects lived experience with the promise of modernization. The importance of television to postsocialist transformation was made explicit as early as the Eleventh Chinese Radio and Television Con- ference held in 1983. The conference...

... radio talk show host, Jandir Luchesi. In his morning show, he would actually bring some of the abandonados in, pleading with and scolding his radio audi- ence: “Does anyone know this person? Who on earth could have done...

... Brian Larkin 101 Spiritual Attunement: Pentecostal Radio in the Soundscape of a Favela in Rio de Janeiro  •  Martijn Oosterbaan 123 Contributors Maria José A. de Abreu is a doctoral student in the Amsterdam School of Social Science...