{"product_id":"understanding-radio-9781138172128","title":"Understanding Radio","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Andrew Crisell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Media Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'... a highly imaginative and often very entertaining book ... which ... probably says more than any other available text about the limitations and possibilities of present forms of radio.' \u003cstrong\u003eProfessor Laurie Taylor\u003c\/strong\u003e on the first edition of \u003cem\u003eUnderstanding Radio\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnderstanding Radio is a fully revised edition of a key radio textbook. Andrew Crisell explores how radio processes genres such as news, drama and comedy in highly distinctive ways, and how the listener's use of the medium has important implications for audience studies. He explains why the sound medium, even more than television, has played such a crucial role in the development of modern popular culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book also introduces students to the broadcasting landscape in a time of great change for national and local radio provision. \u003cem\u003eUnderstanding Radio\u003c\/em\u003e will be essential reading both to students of media and to those with a practical involvement in programme production. This new edition includes: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea revised history of radio bringing the reader right up to date \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea brand new chapter on 'talk-and-music' radio, the format adopted by many of the new stations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew Crisell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e lectures in communication and media studies at the University of Sunderland. He has written widely on radio and co-founded Wear FM, winner of the 1992 Sony 'Radio Station of the Year' award.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45237471248535,"sku":"9781138172128","price":12987.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781138172128.webp?v=1769216660","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/understanding-radio-9781138172128","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}