Radio and the Music Confessional
Cottrell, S.J. 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4019-798X (2023).
Radio and the Music Confessional.
In: Wilford, S., Tragaki, D. & Cottrell, S.J. ORCID: 0000-0003-4019-798X (Eds.),
Ethnomusicology and Its Intimacies.
(pp. 75-90). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
doi: 10.4324/9781003365792-9
Abstract
It is the hot, early summer of 2022 and I am sat in the garden of my house in south-east London, among thirsty flowers and wilting shrubs. Leaning back in a reclining chair, my feet propped up by another, I am listening to radio podcasts via my phone. A comfortable pair of headphones shuts out the surrounding urban noise, allowing me to lose myself in the radiophonic moment. I choose the next programme and press play. A familiar theme tune strikes up, overlaid with sounds of lapping waves and herring gulls, and I am ready to drift away for another forty minutes on an imaginary desert island, surrounded by the sea. The presenter, an invited guest, and me. Just the three of us…
| Publication Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter that is published by Routledge in Ethnomusicology and Its Intimacies available online: http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003365792-9 |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology M Music and Books on Music P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting |
| Departments: | Presidents's Portfolio School of Communication & Creativity > Department of Performing Arts |
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