Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas

Preface: Wireless cultures -- Introduction: Learning to listen -- The New (Deal) Acoustics -- "On the national hookup" : radio, character networks, and U.S.A -- The sound of the good neighbor : radio, realism, and real estate -- Struggling words : public housing, sound technologies, and the position of speech -- Occupying the airwaves -- Tears in the ether : the rise of the radionovela -- Radio's revolutions -- Hand-to-hand speech -- House taken over : listening, writing and the politics of the common place in Manuel Puig's fiction -- The ends of radio : tape, property & popular voice.

Preface: Wireless cultures -- Introduction: Learning to listen -- The New (Deal) Acoustics -- "On the national hookup" : radio, character networks, and U.S.A -- The sound of the good neighbor : radio, realism, and real estate -- Struggling words : public housing, sound technologies, and the position of speech -- Occupying the airwaves -- Tears in the ether : the rise of the radionovela -- Radio's revolutions -- Hand-to-hand speech -- House taken over : listening, writing and the politics of the common place in Manuel Puig's fiction -- The ends of radio : tape, property & popular voice