Acoustic properties: radio, narrative, and the new neighborhood of the Americas

Contents -- Preface: Wireless Cultures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Learning to Listen -- Part I. The New (Deal) Acoustics -- 1. "On the National Hookup": Radio, Character Networks, and U.S.A. -- 2. The Sound of the Good Neighbor: Radio, Realism, and Real Estate -- 3. Struggling Words: Public Housing, Sound Technologies, and the Position of Speech -- Part II. Occupying the Airwaves -- 4. Tears in the Ether: The Rise of the Radionovela -- 5. Radio's Revolutions -- Part III. Hand-to-Hand Speech -- 6. House Taken Over: Listening, Writing and the Politics of the Commonplace in Manuel Puig's Fiction -- 7. The Ends of Radio: Tape, Property, and Popular Voice -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

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