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This episode was originally released on 5/1/2018. While new episodes of Breaking Walls are on hiatus I'll be going back and posting the older episodes beginning with this episode on the birth of radio. ___________ In Breaking Walls Episode 79, we present a detailed look at Orson Welles' radio career through the end of 1941. Highlights: • Beginnings in Illinois and China — How they helped shape Orson • The Todd Seminary School — His first exposure to theater and Radio • Connections and Early Breaks — How his mentor Roger Hill, Thornton Wilder, Alexander Woollcott, and Katharine Cornell helped Orson get to Broadway • Orson meets John Houseman and Archibald MacLeish, and first appears on the March of Time • 1935-1937 — From the March of Time to the Columbia Workshop, and how Irvin Reis taught Orson how to create for radio • How the US Government shaped the opportunity for Orson to write, direct, and star in Les Misérables on the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1937 • The Shadow Knows! — Agnes Moorehead and Orson Welles' one season on The Shadow • The birth of the Mercury Theater on the Air as First Person singular. • How it's success led to the most infamous night in radio in October of 1938 • Mainstream success with Campbell's Soups • Orson goes to Hollywood, and signs the greatest autonomous film contract in history at 24 • Citizen Kane — How William Randolph Hearst and RKO shaped the film • Lady Esther Presents — Orson comes back to radio in the autumn of 1941 • Pearl Harbor Day and collaborating with Norman Corwin • Joseph Cotton introduces Orson to Rita Hayworth The WallBreakers: http://thewallbreakers.com Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts. To support the show: http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers The reading material used in today's episode was: • Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles by Frank Brady • This is Orson Welles by Welles and Peter Bogdanovich • The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio by John Dunning • Discovering Orson Welles by Jonathan Rosenbaum Other materials included: • http://www.wellesnet.com - an incredibly comprehensive website on Orson's career • Orson Welles on the Air, 1938-1946 at https://orsonwelles.indiana.edu • The Radio Preservation Task Force also has a great Facebook group headed by Josh Shepperd Selected Interviews in this episode were: • Orson Welles with Dick Cavett, Johnny Carson, and Huw Wheldon, • Agnes Moorehead and Alan Reed were with radio Hall of Fame Member Chuck Schaden, who interviewed over 200 members of the radio community during his 39 year career. Chuck's interviews can be streamed for free at SpeakingofRadio.com. • William Robson was with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC's The Golden Age of Radio in January of 1976 and Kenny Delmare was with John Dunning in 1983. Those interviews can be found at the Old Time Radio Researcher's Group at Otrrlibrary.org • William Herz was with Walden Hughes and John and Larry Gassman in 2013 for their program on the Yesterday USA Radio Network, which you can visit at http://www.yesterdayusa.com.
BLACK WOMEN IN RADIO Who will preserve our history? In April 2023 Black Women In Radio (BWIR) and the Radio Preservation Task Force of the Library of Congress joined forces to launch a new sound and oral history project. For the first time in American history, Black women are not only being recognized, but are included in archival history. LEGENDS: The Evolution and Legacy of Black Radio Culture, led by BWIR Founder, Felèsha Love, is a comprehensive study of radio culture through sound, pivotal historical socio-political challenges, and collectibles from the people who helped shape Black radio and music culture. Love is joined by Mutter Evans, Carole Carper and Jacquie Gales Webb – 3 of the first distinguished “Inaugural 39” inductees. Each woman's unique career is a multi-dimensional journey, rich in history and ripe with full-bodied experiences. You don't want to miss this! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BLACK WOMEN IN RADIO Who will preserve our history? In April 2023 Black Women In Radio (BWIR) and the Radio Preservation Task Force of the Library of Congress joined forces to launch a new sound and oral history project. For the first time in American history, Black women are not only being recognized, but are included in archival history. LEGENDS: The Evolution and Legacy of Black Radio Culture, led by BWIR Founder, Felèsha Love, is a comprehensive study of radio culture through sound, pivotal historical socio-political challenges, and collectibles from the people who helped shape Black radio and music culture. Love is joined by Mutter Evans, Carole Carper and Jacquie Gales Webb – 3 of the first distinguished “Inaugural 39” inductees. Each woman's unique career is a multi-dimensional journey, rich in history and ripe with full-bodied experiences. You don't want to miss this! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 65 – Bob Friedman on the Birmingham Black Radio Museum's 2023 Digital History Award (Large Project Category). Air Date: August 3, 2023 Bob Friedman, founder and director of the Birmingham Black Radio Museum (BBRM) talks about receiving the Alabama Historical Association's 2023 Digital History Award, about the founding of the BBRM, and about his background in (and the history of) Black centered radio as a veteran talk show host and manager. He talks about singing with and interviewing many Black R&B and Gospel performers, and he tells us about Paul "Tall Paul" White, a legendary radio announcer of 1950s and 1960s Birmingham. Links to things mentioned in the episode: Birmingham Black Radio Museum (BBRM) https://www.thebbrm.org/ Alabama Historical Association Digital History Award https://www.alabamahistory.net/digital-history-award Alabama Historical Association https://www.alabamahistory.net/ Alabama Department of Archives and History https://archives.alabama.gov/ Department of Archival Studies, SLIS, University of Alabama https://cis.ua.edu/academic-departments/school-of-library-information-studies/ The Carver Theater https://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Carver_Theater Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame https://jazzhall.com/ Paul "Tall Paul" White http://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Tall_Paul Alabama Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame https://al-ba.com/wp2/aba-hall-of-fame-and-broadcasters-of-the-year/ "View a Radio Hero" https://www.blog.thebbrm.org/2020/04/22/a-radio-hero/ Radio Preservation Task Force of the Library of Congress [April 2023 Program] https://radiopreservation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/23-LOC-Conference-Program-FINAL.pdf Dr. Robert Riter https://cis.ua.edu/cis-theme-staff/bob-riter/ Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript on Google Drive: https://tinyurl.com/7377xjb *Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate. The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray. Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website https://www.alabamahistory.net/
BLACK WOMEN IN RADIO Who will preserve our history? In April 2023 Black Women In Radio (BWIR) and the Radio Preservation Task Force of the Library of Congress joined forces to launch a new sound and oral history project. For the first time in American history, Black women are not only being recognized, but are included in archival history. LEGENDS: The Evolution and Legacy of Black Radio Culture, led by BWIR Founder, Felèsha Love, is a comprehensive study of radio culture through sound, pivotal historical socio-political challenges, and collectibles from the people who helped shape Black radio and music culture. Love is joined by Mutter Evans, Carole Carper and Jacquie Gales Webb – 3 of the first distinguished “Inaugural 39” inductees. Each woman's unique career is a multi-dimensional journey, rich in history and ripe with full-bodied experiences. You don't want to miss this! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BLACK WOMEN IN RADIO Who will preserve our history? In April 2023 Black Women In Radio (BWIR) and the Radio Preservation Task Force of the Library of Congress joined forces to launch a new sound and oral history project. For the first time in American history, Black women are not only being recognized, but are included in archival history. LEGENDS: The Evolution and Legacy of Black Radio Culture, led by BWIR Founder, Felèsha Love, is a comprehensive study of radio culture through sound, pivotal historical socio-political challenges, and collectibles from the people who helped shape Black radio and music culture. Love is joined by Mutter Evans, Carole Carper and Jacquie Gales Webb – 3 of the first distinguished “Inaugural 39” inductees. Each woman's unique career is a multi-dimensional journey, rich in history and ripe with full-bodied experiences. You don't want to miss this! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Audio industries are largely gatekept from women and other marginalized identities. Morgan Jones (co-host of XRAY's News with My Fiance & Unrefined Sophisticates), Naomi Shah (MeetCute), and Jennifer Waits (Radio Survivor, Spinning Indie, co-chair of the College/Community/Educational Radio Caucus for the Library of Congress' Radio Preservation Task Force) share their experiences in different parts of the audio media scene and consider how women can get a foot in the door, how each of their unique brands of storytelling speak to them, and how the industry can better serve women of color.
Josh Shepperd joins Money on the Left to discuss the research and activism that hastened the rise of public media in the United States. Assistant Professor of media studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder, Shepperd shows how public-interest broadcasting platforms like NPR and PBS exist in the U.S. today in large part as a consequence of hard-fought battles by committed scholars and advocates throughout the inter- and post-war periods. In particular, Shepperd traces the untold aftermath of the Communications Act of 1934 which, in addition to creating the Federal Communications Commission, gave overwhelming legal support to private for-profit networks, while stripping radio licenses from public and educational broadcasters committed to serving the common good. Deepening this narrative, Shepperd draws special attention to the Princeton Radio Research Project, spearheaded by noted sociologist and communication studies scholar Paul Lazarsfeld. Through the Project, Lazarsfeld developed influential quantitative research methods that fundamentally shaped the discipline of communication studies. Fascinatingly, however, Lazarsfeld hired then-immigré critical theorist Theodor Adorno to assist in the research program. As Shepperd tells it, Lazardfeld welcomed and even incorporated the critical theorist's incisive contributions into the Project. Yet, Adorno ultimately repudiated the Project's efforts to build a robust U.S. public radio system, unfortunately divorcing the developing tradition of Critical Theory from the domain of public media research and advocacy. Fast-forwarding to the present, we ask Shepperd about his argument that contemporary humanities research ought to be politically constructive. We then conclude by exploring his important archival work for the Radio Preservation Task Force at the Library of Congress.See here for Shepperd's article, “Theodor Adorno, Paul Lazarsfeld, and the Public Interest Mandate of Early Communications Research, 1935–1941,” published by the journal Communication Theory in August 2021.Visit our Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/MoLsuperstructureMusic by Nahneen Kula: www.nahneenkula.com
In this exciting episode, we talk all about the history of Pirate Radio in Brooklyn, NYC with David Goren (@shortwaveology). His newest release on Bandcamp via ‘Death is Not the End' captures a flavour of pirate radio in Brooklyn over the last ten years. David has created programming for the BBC, Studio 360, NPR's Lost and Found Sound series, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Afropop and On the Media as well as audio-based installations for Proteus Gowanus, the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective and Radio Cona and many others. David's Brooklyn Pirate Radio Map project has been featured in the New Yorker and is a partner archive of the Library of Congress' Radio Preservation Task Force. A Brooklyn based writer, post-production mixer and field recordist for over 30 years, David has recorded everyone from the Dalai Lama to the Dancing Chicken of Chinatown. He is also one half of the shortwave radio jam band, The Propagations with Ned Sublette.The Brooklyn Pirate Radio Map is here.The New Yorker article is here.His catalogue of select shows is here. His newest release ‘Brooklyn Pirates' is here.David's lecture at Yale University is here.David's ‘Shortwaveology' site is here.
In this episode, Josh Shepperd, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the Catholic University of America, Sound Fellow at the Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Board (NRPB), and Humanities and Information Fellow at Penn State, discusses his work on the history of radio broadcasting and the preservation of sound recordings. Shepperd begins by explaining the purpose of the NRPB and the Radio Preservation Task Force. He describes the perilous state of the archival record of American radio, reflecting on why so many recordings are lost or destroyed, and how many recording are rapidly deteriorating. He argues that radio recordings preserve a unique aspect of American cultural history, distinct from any other, and focused on the lived experience of marginalized groups. He also discusses his forthcoming history of public broadcasting, and the little-known story of how Theodor Adorno came to the United States to advise the government on educational radio policy. Shepperd is on Twitter at @joshshepperd.This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Radio Preservation Task Force’s Director Josh Shepperd and Conference Director Neil Verma are our guests for a discussion about the work of the Library of Congress initiative. They explain the significance of 2020 for radio history, share some of the accomplishments of the Task Force, and preview the next Radio Preservation Conference Task Force Conference, […] The post Podcast #192: Saving Radio History with The Radio Preservation Task Force appeared first on Radio Survivor.
Radio Preservation Task Force’s Director Josh Shepperd and Conference Director Neil Verma are our guests for a discussion about the work of the Library of Congress initiative. They explain the significance of 2020 for radio history, share some of the accomplishments of the Task Force, and preview the next Radio Preservation Conference Task Force Conference, […] The post Podcast #192: Saving Radio History with The Radio Preservation Task Force appeared first on Radio Survivor.
In Breaking Walls Episode 79, we present a detailed look at Orson Welles’ radio career through the end of 1941. Highlights: • Beginnings in Illinois and China — How they helped shape Orson • The Todd Seminary School — His first exposure to theater and Radio • Connections and Early Breaks — How his mentor Roger Hill, Thornton Wilder, Alexander Woollcott, and Katharine Cornell helped Orson get to Broadway • Orson meets John Houseman and Archibald MacLeish, and first appears on the March of Time • 1935-1937 — From the March of Time to the Columbia Workshop, and how Irvin Reis taught Orson how to create for radio • How the US Government shaped the opportunity for Orson to write, direct, and star in Les Misérables on the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1937 • The Shadow Knows! — Agnes Moorehead and Orson Welles’ one season on The Shadow • The birth of the Mercury Theater on the Air as First Person singular. • How it’s success led to the most infamous night in radio in October of 1938 • Mainstream success with Campbell’s Soups • Orson goes to Hollywood, and signs the greatest autonomous film contract in history at 24 • Citizen Kane — How William Randolph Hearst and RKO shaped the film • Lady Esther Presents — Orson comes back to radio in the autumn of 1941 • Pearl Harbor Day and collaborating with Norman Corwin • Joseph Cotton introduces Orson to Rita Hayworth The WallBreakers: http://thewallbreakers.com Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts. To support the show: http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers Special thanks to our Sponsors: • The Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society http://www.ghoulishdelights.com/series/themorls/ • Twelve Chimes, It’s Midnight https://twelvechimesradio.blogspot.com • The Fireside Mystery Theatre https://www.firesidemysterytheatre.com The reading material used in today’s episode was: • Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles by Frank Brady • This is Orson Welles by Welles and Peter Bogdanovich • The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio by John Dunning • Discovering Orson Welles by Jonathan Rosenbaum Other materials included: • http://www.wellesnet.com - an incredibly comprehensive website on Orson’s career • Orson Welles on the Air, 1938-1946 at https://orsonwelles.indiana.edu • The Radio Preservation Task Force also has a great Facebook group headed by Josh Shepperd Selected Interviews in this episode were: • Orson Welles with Dick Cavett, Johnny Carson, and Huw Wheldon, • Agnes Moorehead and Alan Reed were with radio Hall of Fame Member Chuck Schaden, who interviewed over 200 members of the radio community during his 39 year career. Chuck’s interviews can be streamed for free at SpeakingofRadio.com. • William Robson was with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio in January of 1976 and Kenny Delmare was with John Dunning in 1983. Those interviews can be found at the Old Time Radio Researcher’s Group at Otrrlibrary.org • William Herz was with Walden Hughes and John and Larry Gassman in 2013 for their program on the Yesterday USA Radio Network, which you can visit at http://www.yesterdayusa.com. A Special Thank you to: Christian Neuhaus Rebecca Shield WallBreakers Links: Patreon - http://patreon.com/thewallbreakers Social Media - @TheWallBreakers URL - http://thewallbreakers.com Online Store - jamesthewallbreaker.com/shop/
“Podcasts are luring people into listening,” Jennifer Waits reports, quoting the esteemed radio scholar Susan Douglas, from her keynote address at the recent Radio Preservation Task Force conference in Washington DC. Jennifer also relays some important reasons for studying radio history shared at the conference, especially to help understand the present and plan for the […] The post Podcast #117 – Soundwork: Preserving the Legacy of Radio, Podcasts (& Alice’s Restaurant) appeared first on Radio Survivor.
“Podcasts are luring people into listening,” Jennifer Waits reports, quoting the esteemed radio scholar Susan Douglas, from her keynote address at the recent Radio Preservation Task Force conference in Washington DC. Jennifer also relays some important reasons for studying radio history shared at the conference, especially to help understand the present and plan for the […] The post Podcast #117 – Soundwork: Preserving the Legacy of Radio, Podcasts (& Alice’s Restaurant) appeared first on Radio Survivor.
This week we’re on the hunt for radio treasure. Prof. John Anderson of Brooklyn College joins us to talk about his quest to find and preserve the legacy of labor radio with his role in the Library of Congress’ Radio Preservation Task Force. Then our resident radio scholar Brain Fauteux interviews radio artist Magz Hall. […] The post Podcast #40: Radio Treasure Hunt appeared first on Radio Survivor.
This week we’re on the hunt for radio treasure. Prof. John Anderson of Brooklyn College joins us to talk about his quest to find and preserve the legacy of labor radio with his role in the Library of Congress’ Radio Preservation Task Force. Then our resident radio scholar Brain Fauteux interviews radio artist Magz Hall. […] The post Podcast #40: Radio Treasure Hunt appeared first on Radio Survivor.
On this week’s show we hear about efforts to preserve radio’s past, and the FCC’s letter writing campaign intended to undermine pirate operators. Jennifer Waits joins to talk about the Library of Congress’ recent Radio Preservation Task Force conference. She explains why preservation efforts provide not just an important record of radio’s past, but also […] The post Podcast #37 – Preservation, Pirates, and Radionomy appeared first on Radio Survivor.
On this week’s show we hear about efforts to preserve radio’s past, and the FCC’s letter writing campaign intended to undermine pirate operators. Jennifer Waits joins to talk about the Library of Congress’ recent Radio Preservation Task Force conference. She explains why preservation efforts provide not just an important record of radio’s past, but also […] The post Podcast #37 – Preservation, Pirates, and Radionomy appeared first on Radio Survivor.
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