Michele Hilmes
Biographic Data
| ID | 534222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michele Hilmes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michele |
| FAMILY NAME | Hilmes |
| SIGNATURE | HILMES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
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Introduction to The Oxford Handbook of Radio and Podcasting
Langston Hughes, The Man Who Went to War , and the Political Work of the Radio Ballad
This chapter analyzes the long-thought-lost Langston Hughes radio feature, The Man Who Went to War, both in terms of its contributions to the poetics of the radio ballad form and to its place in the racial politics of World War II. Tracing the trajectory of Hughes’s work in radio, the circumstances that led up to The Man Who Went to War, its roots both in Black musical traditions and in the transnational folk song movement, and the political and …
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The Oxford Handbook of Radio and Podcasting
Radio remains the most accessible and widely available communication medium worldwide, despite technological shifts and a host of upstart challengers. Since its origins in the 1920s, radio has innovated a new world of sound culture—now expanded into the digital realm of podcasting—that is enabling the medium to reach larger audiences than ever before. Yet radio remains one of the least studied of the major areas of communication arts, largely bec…
Soundwork
In the 1990s, thanks to digital convergence, many disciplines centrally concerned with the mediated uses of sound from a variety of different orientations—communication, musicology, speech, ethnography, history of technology, journalism, theater and drama, and art, to name a few—began to recognize the need for a new term to indicate their shared focus. Here I propose soundwork as that term, laying out the reasons why we need it, how it can change…
Screen Culture
Screen Culture: A Global History Screen Culture: A Global History. By Richard Butsch. (Cambridge: Polity, 2019. x, 308 pp. Cloth, $69.95. Paper, $26.95.) Michele Hilmes Michele Hilmes Emerita University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 107, Issue 4, March 2021, Pages 1042–1043, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaaa550 Published: 01 M…
Saving New Sounds
Is this thing on?Part microphone check, part technical support query; the question seems a fitting way to start this collection, which is not just the book you hold in your hands (or the PDF you see on your screen) but also a vibrant, growing, and slightly temperamental database that indexes millions of podcasts
NBC
Spanning eight decades from the beginnings of commercial radio to the current era of international consolidation and emerging digital platforms, this pioneering volume illuminates the entire course of American broadcasting by offering the first comprehensive history of a major network. Bringing together wide-ranging original articles by leading scholars and industry insiders, it offers a comprehensive view of the National Broadcasting Company (NB…
Podcast review and criticism
Entangled Media Histories
The EMHIS project has produced a well-reasoned and compelling case for refocusing our study of media from concentration on its national and medium-specific aspects to a broader, more contextualized
Transnational TV
Over the last two decades, transnational coproduction has become the new normal for high-end television drama and documentary. Obscured behind the attention paid to that other new global phenomenon, the reality format, other innovative program forms have emerged alongside newly constituted transnational publics, rich new constellations of cultural engagement, and a host of evolving practices of cooperative production. This article attempts to ide…
Legacies From the Past
The ‘North Atlantic Triangle’
This paper examines a few key moments in television's navigation of the competing demands of the national and the transnational in the 1950s, focusing on the relationship between Great Britain, the USA and Canada. Three figures whose careers demonstrate the complex currents of transnational exchange in this ‘North American triangle’ are discussed: Alistair Cooke, British commentator on American life, selected in 1952 to host the BBC-inspired expe…
The Work of the Archive in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Whose Text is it Anyway? Creativity, Authorship and the Transnational in Television
NBC
Conference Review
Front Line Family
During the 1930s and 1940s, the BBC resolutely held out against the program form most notoriously associated with ‘vulgar’, commercial, feminized US radio culture: soap operas, or serial drama with a domestic setting directed primarily at an audience of women. Yet the first British soap opera, Front Line Family, made its debut in 1941 on the North American Service, as a propaganda vehicle aimed expressly at encouraging US entry into the Second Wo…
Is There a Field Called Sound Culture Studies? And Does It Matter
The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. By Jonathan Sterne. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. 448 pages. $24.95 (paper). The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900 to 1930. By Emily Thompson. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. 510 pages. $47.95 (cloth). I pose the two questions above in the face of mounting evidence that the study of sound, hailed as an "emerging f…
Where is PBS's Oprah?
Where is PBS's Oprah?: Media Studies and the Fear of the Popular Get access Michele Hilmes Michele Hilmes 1Michele Hilmes (PhD, New York University) is a professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin, Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 54, Issue 1, 1 March 2004, Pages 174–177, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2004.tb02620.x Publish…
Where is PBS's Oprah
Journal Article Where is PBS's Oprah?: Media Studies and the Fear of the Popular Get access Michele Hilmes Michele Hilmes 1Michele Hilmes (PhD, New York University) is a professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin, Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 54, Issue 1, 1 March 2004, Pages 174–177, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2004.t…
The Television History Book
Traces the history of broadcasting and the influence developments in broadcasting have had over our social, cultural and economic practices. Examining the broadcasting traditions of the UK and USA, The Television History Book makes connections between events and tendencies that both unite and differentiate between these national broadcasting traditions
Radio Reader
British quality, American chaos
This article argues that what has often been presented as a simple, crucial opposition - the British public service broadcasting system versus the US private profit system - in fact demonstrates not only a self-conscious mutual involvement but a set of common objectives that overrides many of their differences. From each broadcasting system’s earliest history, a mutual construction of a dualism loudly proclaimed can be observed, built largely aro…
Radio voices
In Radio Voices, Michele Hilmes looks at the way radio programming influenced and was influenced by the United States of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, tracing the history of the medium from its earliest years through the advent of television.
Is There a Field Called Sound Culture Studies? And Does It Matter
The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. By Jonathan Sterne. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. 448 pages. $24.95 (paper). The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900 to 1930. By Emily Thompson. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. 510 pages. $47.95 (cloth). I pose the two questions above in the face of mounting evidence that the study of sound, hailed as an "emerging f…
Front Line Family
During the 1930s and 1940s, the BBC resolutely held out against the program form most notoriously associated with ‘vulgar’, commercial, feminized US radio culture: soap operas, or serial drama with a domestic setting directed primarily at an audience of women. Yet the first British soap opera, Front Line Family, made its debut in 1941 on the North American Service, as a propaganda vehicle aimed expressly at encouraging US entry into the Second Wo…
Hollywood and Broadcasting
Screen Culture
Screen Culture: A Global History Screen Culture: A Global History. By Richard Butsch. (Cambridge: Polity, 2019. x, 308 pp. Cloth, $69.95. Paper, $26.95.) Michele Hilmes Michele Hilmes Emerita University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 107, Issue 4, March 2021, Pages 1042–1043, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaaa550 Published: 01 M…
Entangled Media Histories
The EMHIS project has produced a well-reasoned and compelling case for refocusing our study of media from concentration on its national and medium-specific aspects to a broader, more contextualized
The ‘North Atlantic Triangle’
This paper examines a few key moments in television's navigation of the competing demands of the national and the transnational in the 1950s, focusing on the relationship between Great Britain, the USA and Canada. Three figures whose careers demonstrate the complex currents of transnational exchange in this ‘North American triangle’ are discussed: Alistair Cooke, British commentator on American life, selected in 1952 to host the BBC-inspired expe…
Saving New Sounds
Is this thing on?Part microphone check, part technical support query; the question seems a fitting way to start this collection, which is not just the book you hold in your hands (or the PDF you see on your screen) but also a vibrant, growing, and slightly temperamental database that indexes millions of podcasts
Podcast review and criticism
British quality, American chaos
This article argues that what has often been presented as a simple, crucial opposition - the British public service broadcasting system versus the US private profit system - in fact demonstrates not only a self-conscious mutual involvement but a set of common objectives that overrides many of their differences. From each broadcasting system’s earliest history, a mutual construction of a dualism loudly proclaimed can be observed, built largely aro…
Film industry alternatives to the networks
Comic Books and America, 1945-1954
Journal Article Comic Books and America, 1945–1954. By William W. Savage, Jr. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. xiv + 151 pp. $16.95.) Get access Michele Hilmes Michele Hilmes Spring Hill College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1146–1147, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078941 Published: 01 December 1991
Hollywood and Broadcasting
Invisible men
This analysis of Amos 'n' Andy charts the development of a key text in the evolution of broadcast forms, looking at its institutional context, examining its representational strategies, and attempting to assess the impact its discourse might have had on both radio as a cultural form and on the perceptions of those who listened to it, particularly its role in the larger social discourse on race. It argues that the development of radio is deeply in…
When Television Was Young
Journal Article When Television Was Young: Primetime Canada, 1952–1967. By Paul Rutherford. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. xvi + 637 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-8020-5830-2. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8020-6647-X.) Get access Michele Hilmes Michele Hilmes Spring Hill College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1678–1679, https://doi.org/…
Radio voices
In Radio Voices, Michele Hilmes looks at the way radio programming influenced and was influenced by the United States of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, tracing the history of the medium from its earliest years through the advent of television.
Media at War
Media at War
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 525 city”(of course he would play up the New York angle), the story of Steinway is really an American story. Its readers will indeed be thoroughly engaged by the story of this great piano-building family, but they will additionally come away with an enhanced understand ing of the history of American business and industry, society and culture. Emily Thompson Dr. Thompson teaches the history of technology at the…
Only Connect
ONLY CONNECT is a comprehensive history of American broadcasting from its earliest days in radio, through the rise of television, to the current era of digital media and the Internet. It presents broadcasting as a vital component of American cultural identity, placing the development of U.S. radio, television, and new media in the context of social and cultural change. Each chapter opens with a discussion of the historical period, thoroughly trac…
The Television History Book
Traces the history of broadcasting and the influence developments in broadcasting have had over our social, cultural and economic practices. Examining the broadcasting traditions of the UK and USA, The Television History Book makes connections between events and tendencies that both unite and differentiate between these national broadcasting traditions
Radio Reader
British quality, American chaos
This article argues that what has often been presented as a simple, crucial opposition - the British public service broadcasting system versus the US private profit system - in fact demonstrates not only a self-conscious mutual involvement but a set of common objectives that overrides many of their differences. From each broadcasting system’s earliest history, a mutual construction of a dualism loudly proclaimed can be observed, built largely aro…
Where is PBS's Oprah?
Where is PBS's Oprah?: Media Studies and the Fear of the Popular Get access Michele Hilmes Michele Hilmes 1Michele Hilmes (PhD, New York University) is a professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin, Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 54, Issue 1, 1 March 2004, Pages 174–177, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2004.tb02620.x Publish…
Where is PBS's Oprah
Journal Article Where is PBS's Oprah?: Media Studies and the Fear of the Popular Get access Michele Hilmes Michele Hilmes 1Michele Hilmes (PhD, New York University) is a professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin, Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 54, Issue 1, 1 March 2004, Pages 174–177, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2004.t…
Is There a Field Called Sound Culture Studies? And Does It Matter
The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. By Jonathan Sterne. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. 448 pages. $24.95 (paper). The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900 to 1930. By Emily Thompson. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. 510 pages. $47.95 (cloth). I pose the two questions above in the face of mounting evidence that the study of sound, hailed as an "emerging f…
NBC
Conference Review
Front Line Family
During the 1930s and 1940s, the BBC resolutely held out against the program form most notoriously associated with ‘vulgar’, commercial, feminized US radio culture: soap operas, or serial drama with a domestic setting directed primarily at an audience of women. Yet the first British soap opera, Front Line Family, made its debut in 1941 on the North American Service, as a propaganda vehicle aimed expressly at encouraging US entry into the Second Wo…
Whose Text is it Anyway? Creativity, Authorship and the Transnational in Television
The ‘North Atlantic Triangle’
This paper examines a few key moments in television's navigation of the competing demands of the national and the transnational in the 1950s, focusing on the relationship between Great Britain, the USA and Canada. Three figures whose careers demonstrate the complex currents of transnational exchange in this ‘North American triangle’ are discussed: Alistair Cooke, British commentator on American life, selected in 1952 to host the BBC-inspired expe…
The Work of the Archive in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Legacies From the Past
Transnational TV
Over the last two decades, transnational coproduction has become the new normal for high-end television drama and documentary. Obscured behind the attention paid to that other new global phenomenon, the reality format, other innovative program forms have emerged alongside newly constituted transnational publics, rich new constellations of cultural engagement, and a host of evolving practices of cooperative production. This article attempts to ide…
Podcast review and criticism
Entangled Media Histories
The EMHIS project has produced a well-reasoned and compelling case for refocusing our study of media from concentration on its national and medium-specific aspects to a broader, more contextualized
Sociology (19 works) · History (15 works) · Media studies (15 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Art (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · History (10 works) · Media Studies and Communication (9 works) · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media (8 works) · Art history (7 works)