What's the connection between a dead cat and a radio show? In a previous post I'd talked about Clifford Geertz, and how I'd enjoyed the writings of this anthropologist. Now I'd like to mention a colleague of his from Princeton University in the 1970s, Robert Darnton. Robert Darnton is a historian by trade, and I … Continue reading Killing cats…
Tag: Radio Culture
From the archives: September 1989
How to write about radio, about the experience of listening? Here's a piece from an industry trade paper, in September 1989. It's a review of a tape of a live show I'd recorded onto cassette in June of that year and then posted (by Royal Mail) to the magazine. How else was a journalist in … Continue reading From the archives: September 1989
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The job of an academic and a cultural historian is to worry about things: what stuff means. I have been influenced by two writers - one a cultural historian and the other an anthropologist. Here I want to talk about the latter (more about the former in another post). Clifford Geertz was an anthropologist who … Continue reading Thick description…
From the archives: 9 April 1992
Here's the start of BBC Radio York's election night results programme in 1992. An example of local live reporting... I'd gathered up all those clips during the course of the campaign trail to build this audio montage. It was a busy night for the BBC Radio York team, reporting live from every parliamentary constituency count … Continue reading From the archives: 9 April 1992
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