Moving Sounds
Moving Sounds explores the unique animating symbiosis that develops whenever previously unrelated technologies become intertwined and form a mutually invigorating relationship. When "car" and "radio" became permanently inculcated, it changed how both cars and radio were designed and experienced. Moving Sounds is the first book-length study exploring the relationship between the car and the radio. While much scholarship has been devoted to the general history of radio, radio’s unique relationship with the open road has been largely overlooked. The nascent interconnectivity between the early car and radio developers, and what they did to help each other, is another aspect of cultural history that is explored in Moving Sounds.
Phylis Johnson, Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Carbondale, is Professor and Director of Journalism and Mass Communications at San Jose State University, and Emeritus Professor of Sound & New Media in the College of Mass Communication & Media Arts at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. She is the outgoing editor of Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology and the past editor of the Journal of Radio and Audio Media. She has authored four books in media studies, numerous research chapters and journal articles, as well as arts reviews and magazine features on gaming, sound and new media, particularly virtual and mixed reality. She has presented internationally and has more than 20 years of professional radio experience.
Ian Punnett, Ph.D., Arizona State University, is a former nationally syndicated radio personality, morning show host, media personality, and author of such books as Toward a Theory of True Crime Narratives. He is the past managing editor of the Journal of Radio and Audio Media.