Music, Radio and the Public Sphere: The Aesthetics of Democracy

Contents

• Introduction the Unknown and the Unheard
• PART I : ENFORCING AND EVADING RATIONALIZATION Social Solidarity in the Luminiferous Ether Corporate Rationality, Communicative Reason and Aesthetic Experience Of Communities and Constituencies: Radio, the Market and the State
• PART II : MAKING RADIO, MAKING MEANING What Does a Civil Society Sound Like? Local Music for Local People Mixing: the Rational, the Reasoned, the Resourceful
• Conclusion the Unheard and the Unknown
• Bibliography
• Index