ABSTRACT
As befits a set of technologies and practices whose histories span well over 100 years, radio’s relationship to sound has taken on many meanings depending on the social, cultural, technological, and historical contexts of its use. Some points of intersection between sound studies and radio studies lie in the following areas: radio sound as technologically mediated communication, radio sound and community and public formation, the aesthetics of radio sound and the radio voice, and radio sound and avant-garde practice. While this entry creates these categorical divisions for the purposes of typology, in practice, these concerns are more often mutually determining than analytically distinct.
