ABSTRACT

This book explores the connections between sound and memory across all electronic media, with a particular focus on radio. Street explores our capacity to remember through sound and how we can help ourselves preserve a sense of self through the continuity of memory. In so doing, he analyzes how the brain is triggered by the memory of programs, songs, and individual sounds. He then examines the growing importance of sound archives, community radio and current research using GPS technology for the history of place, as well as the potential for developing strategies to aid Alzheimer's and dementia patients through audio memory.

chapter 1|14 pages

Introduction

Echoes and Shadows

chapter 2|16 pages

Tell Me a Story

chapter 3|13 pages

Radio

Feeding the Imagination

chapter 4|15 pages

‘Father of the Man'

Radio, Audio and Youth

chapter 5|15 pages

Music Memory

Music in the Moment

chapter 6|21 pages

Ourselves as History

An Encyclopaedia of Sounds

chapter 7|19 pages

Walls Have Voices

chapter 9|15 pages

Holding on to Sounds

chapter 10|15 pages

The Future Sound of Memory