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  • Provides a comprehensive, easy-to-use introduction to the field
  • Grounds theory with global examples
  • Takes it further with recommended reading
  • Covers the central ideas and practices from production and media studies
  • Situates radio studies within its historical context and contemporary auditory culture

Acoustics

Acoustics

Acoustics refers to the quality and nature of sound in a particular physical environment. It also refers more generally to sound and hearing as in ‘acoustic dislocation’.

The word acoustics is used in two rather different ways in writing on radio. It has a specific ...

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