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Books: Radio Theory

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

A First Look At Communication Theory, New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 1999. Griffin, Emory, "Narrative Paradigm of Walter Fisher"
Human Communication As Narration: Toward a Philosophy of Reason, Value, and Action by Walter Fisher, Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1989. (pp 62-69)
Radio Rethink, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, 1991. Bull, Hank and Ready, Patrick, "The Story of the HP Show," pp 47-60; Grundman, Heidi, "The Geometry of Silence," pp-129-139; Lander, Dan, "Radiocastings: Musings on Radio and Art," pp 11-32; Schafer, R. Murray "Radical Radio," pp 291-298; Westerkamp, Hildegard, "The Soundscape of Radio," pp 87-94
Radiotext(e) by Neil Strauss and Dave Mandl, Eds,. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1993. Apple, Jackie, "The Art of Radio," pp 307-309; Arnheim, Rudolf, "In Praise of Blindness," pp 21-25; Brecht, Bertolt, "The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication," pp 15-17; Mandl, Dave, "How Awful is the Radio in Your City? Take this Simple Test," pp 269-271
A Voice for Everyone. Veritas Publications and NACB, Dublin, Ireland: 1988. (pp 11-17 and 39-51)
Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant Garde, Kahn and Whitehead, Eds., Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994.