“Their accent is just too much”: Tracing the sonic color line in public radio production
How does the sonic color line manifest in the public radio production process? In this paper, I analyze how voices are evaluated as (in)appropriate for broadcast in a public radio story. Using 75 interviews with public radio employees of color, I identify two main points in the production process where public radio standards disproportionately exclude voices marked as nonwhite: in sourcing stories and in voicing stories. Further, these evaluations place a burden on public radio employees of color that seek to deviate from these exclusionary standards. Tracing this industry’s production process reveals the sonic color line at work in evaluating voices as (in)appropriate for the airwaves.
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