Abstract

As early as the 1920s, cultural critics and avant-garde types had already declared radio to be, if not dead, a wasteland of state and commercial interests that fed listeners an around-the-clock diet of trivia, consumerism, propaganda, and bad art. Yet despite objections about radio's commercialization and mediocrity, the allure of a communications technology in every living room proved too great to ignore.

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