Giving the Story a Treatment: édition anglaise - Softcover

The legacy of radio and the arts has spawned many forms of radical culture over the years, from early Modernist notions of the -Wireless Imagination- and its subsequent vernacular tongues to Acoustic Ecology's call for -Radical Radio.- This contemporary history of radical radio addresses the transformation of this broadcast medium by recent breakthroughs in digital technology--from digital streaming to web radio and podcasting--paying special attention to the -transmission arts- in culture and politics. It includes creative and critical essays by historians, media theorists, radio producers and activists, coupled with artistic and audio projects by current avant-gardists Kabir Carter, Brandon LaBelle, James Sey and others. While -Modern- radio stitched together an electronic network by expanding outward, today's radio may fulfill Marshall McLuhan's idea of the global -extended nervous system- by networking individual lives on more of a cellular level. According to the authors, radio is no longer out there, in the ether, but inside us, transmitting intense stratifications of culture. Comes with audio CD.