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Just look up…

...because if you look down all the time the tops of the buildings will start to dissolve and disappear. Good journalists – and academic researchers – always ask 'why?' To do any less is to commit sacrilege to both professions. When I was about ten years old my parents gave me one particular book that … Continue reading Just look up… →

Martin Cooper Uncategorized 1 Comment May 27, 2018January 23, 2020 3 Minutes

This is not radio…

...it's a blog. Even this recording of me reading this blog - I reckon - isn't radio: (Audio Credit: Martin Cooper (c)) But out in the far reaches of the Internet (I'm not convinced it needs a capital letter) there's a forum where the meaning of the word 'radio' is still being thrashed out. The … Continue reading This is not radio… →

Martin Cooper Uncategorized 3 Comments April 2, 2018January 23, 2020 3 Minutes

“I never make predictions…

...and I never will” is a quote attributed to the English footballer Paul Gascoigne, who clearly knew the philosophy behind our natural desire as human beings to have a go at guessing what things will be like in the future. Most of the time we fail, which is why now is a good moment to … Continue reading “I never make predictions… →

Martin Cooper Uncategorized 1 Comment February 21, 2018November 26, 2020 1 Minute

The soundtrack of your life…

Radio is a personal medium. It's my medium. It's also been the medium of the baby boomer generation, of which I am one. Radio, by the end of the 20th century, had become for many who were born in the two decades after the end of WW2 part of the soundtrack of their lives. Tanja … Continue reading The soundtrack of your life… →

Martin Cooper Uncategorized 2 Comments February 1, 2018November 26, 2020 2 Minutes

Killing cats…

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… →

Martin Cooper Uncategorized 2 Comments January 23, 2018January 23, 2020 2 Minutes

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 →

Martin Cooper Uncategorized Leave a comment January 16, 2018January 23, 2020 1 Minute

Thick description…

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… →

Martin Cooper Uncategorized 4 Comments January 16, 2018January 23, 2020 3 Minutes

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