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Books: Radio History

Our reading list provides you with a comprehensive grouping of texts designed to help you learn, grow and produce radio. Books and articles are arranged alphabetically by title. With some book entries, we have indicated sections that might be of particular interest.

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Reading list compiled by Kerry Donahue, January 2004

  • The Art of Fact: An Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism, Kerrane and Yagoda, Eds., New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997. Mahoney, Rosemary, "Whoredom in Kimmage: Irish Women Coming of Age"; Mitchell, Joseph, "Lady Olga"; Simpson, John, "Tiananmen Square"
  • A History of Public Broadcasting by John Witherspoon and Roselle Kovitz, Washington DC: Current Publishing Committee, 2000. (pp 31-36 and 92-109)
  • Listening In by Susan J. Douglas, New York, NY: Random House Inc., 1999. (pp 22-39, 161-199, 256-283, and 347-357)
  • Raised on Radio by Gerald Nachman, Univ. of CA Press, 1998.
  • Sex and Broadcasting: A Handbook on Building a Radio Station for the Community by Lorenzo Wilson Milam, 1974 (Revised, 1987).
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