Turn Your Radio On

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Marovich
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sacred Music ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gospel Music ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Black Disk ◽  
Early Adopters ◽  
White Community ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
Entrepreneurial Efforts

This chapter focuses on the pioneers of sacred music radio broadcasting in Chicago. During the 1920s, several Chicago Pentecostal and Holiness church leaders discovered the potential of radio as a medium for transmitting their ministries to households throughout Chicago and beyond. It was through radio that Chicago's white community was introduced to the sounds of sanctified singing and preaching. As a cultural and economic phenomenon, black-oriented radio in Chicago traces its roots to 1929 and the entrepreneurial efforts of Jack L. Cooper, the first black disk jockey not only in Chicago but in all of the United States. In Bronzeville, Elder Lucy Smith's All Nations Pentecostal Church and Rev. Clarence H. Cobbs's First Church of Deliverance were early adopters of radio for transmitting church services. This chapter examines the radio broadcasts of the All Nations Pentecostal Church and the First Church of Deliverance that allowed gospel music to be heard throughout Chicago, the Midwest, and, ultimately, the nation.

Aftermath

2021 ◽  
pp. 199-206
Author(s):  
Spencer W. McBride
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
The United States ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Decision To Leave ◽  
Joseph Smith ◽  
The Church

This chapter describes the aftermath of the assassination of Joseph Smith. This aftermath includes mourning and a funeral in Nauvoo, debates over who should succeed Smith as the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who the Mormons should vote for in the election, and the decision to leave the United States altogether. The Mormons were contemplating leaving the United States before Smith’s murder, but the violent act seemed to make this departure the only way forward in the minds of many church leaders. They had come to realize that without significant reform, the United States was incapable of protecting them. This chapter also considers the result of the presidential election of 1844 and what became of each of the candidates in the years that followed.

Congress and the Control of Radio-Broadcasting, II

1943 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 1014-1026
Author(s):  
Carl J. Friedrich ◽  
Evelyn Sternberg
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Executive Order ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
Broadcasting Industry ◽  
The Government ◽  
Radio Industry ◽  
National Emergency

Congress established a policy for wartime radio under Section 606 of the Communications Act of 1934 when it gave the President power to take over the entire radio industry in time of war or national emergency. He took advantage of this in September, 1940, when by an executive order he created the Board of War Communications (previously the Defense Communications Board). In the 1934 act, too, he was given wide authority to suspend the FCC rules and to close stations or to use them as he saw fit. In September, 1939, when a state of “limited national emergency” was declared, there was speculation as to the effect that this section would have on the broadcasting industry. Certain Congressmen showed an inclination to back down from the principle of broad Presidential powers over radio. Representative Ditter's bill of 1940, enthusiastically supported by the broadcasting industry, was intended to curb the wide powers the Communications Act had conferred upon the President. This bill, never acted upon, would have added a provision that no transmitter might be confiscated or silenced because of the “character or contents of any program” or in order to permit the government to engage in or control broadcasting, except upon proclamation by the President that the United States was actually at war.Previously, Congress had enacted some legislation which is pertinent to the war. In 1932, for example, a law was passed that licenses should be issued to qualified United States citizens only, and in 1941, by a new act, the Commission was enabled to consider the character and capacity of potential licensees in order to guard against “subversive” individuals.

At the Speed of Sound

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek W. Vaillant
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Speed Of Sound ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Electronic Communications ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

This chapter sketches the history of U.S–French electronic communications prior to the rise of U.S.–French radio broadcasting. Focusing primarily on France, it analyzes the anticipatory and reactive discourses to live interwar transatlantic broadcast connectivity with the United States. The period saw two contrasting, nationally inflected techno-aesthetics take shape in America and France that defined excellence in radio. In America, technological power, abundance, and high-speed execution demonstrated professional competence and efficiency. The French emphasized quality, accepted scarcity, and valued deliberate speed. More than extensions of preexisting differences in U.S. and French cultural conventions these broadcast paradigms emerged relationally and cross-nationally to shape the future of U.S.–French broadcast interaction and the character of an evolving international medium.

scholarly journals The significance of truth and love in authentic racial reconciliation: A black evangelical’s appreciation of the theological contributions of James Cone

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-100
Author(s):  
Frank Anderson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racial Reconciliation ◽  
White Community

Racial reconciliation, far from being about civil conversation, requires whites to listen to the painful truths blacks have to tell about race in the United States. James Cone’s critique of the white church is held up as a truth that the white community must embrace even if it has substantial objections to the rest of Cone’s theology. Reconciliation means listening to the kind of hard truths Cone has to offer.

Rationalization, Standardization, or Market Diversity?

2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-436
Author(s):  
Stephen Lippmann
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
The United States ◽  
Radio Station ◽  
Vital Rates ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Comprehensive Data ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
Dramatic Decline ◽  
Broadcasting Industry

The “golden age” of radio broadcasting in the 1930s and 1940s was dominated by large, national broadcasting networks. The rise of these networks is thought to have been accompanied by a dramatic decline in the number of locally oriented stations in operation in the United States. However, this presumption contradicts the dynamics of concentration and organizational foundings in a variety of other industries. In this article I use comprehensive data on the vital rates of radio station founding, failure, and density to empirically test the popular claims of network dominance in the midcentury U.S. broadcasting industry. The results indicate that locally owned commercial stations were not eliminated by the rise of national broadcasting networks. In fact, concentration in the hands of the networks actually increased the viability of locally owned radio stations.

The Religious Cold War

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dianne Kirby
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Developing World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
The West ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Cold War

This chapter, which examines the place of religion during the Cold War years, suggests that there were conflicting attitudes toward religion in both the United States and the Soviet Union. It explains that Protestant suspicion of the Vatican complicated U.S.–Vatican relations while church leaders within the Soviet bloc were divided between those who advocated cooperation and those who preferred resistance and active opposition. The chapter also contends that religion provided the United States with a stick with which to beat the new communist regimes, and argues that the so-called religious Cold War influenced religion in the West and the developing world in a variety of ways.

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