Selected Bibliography
References and recommendations for further reading and listening on the history of documentary and narrative audio
Bannerman, R. L. On a Note of Triumph: Norman Corwin and the Golden Years of Radio. Carol Publishing Group, 1986.
Barnouw, E. A History of Broadcasting in the United States: The Golden Web: 1933 to 1953. Oxford University Press, 1968.
Barlow, William. Voice Over: The Making of Black Radio. Temple University Press, December 21, 1998.
Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was, PRX/Smithsonian Institution 25th Anniversary Edition (Six-Hour Series), online 2021.
Corwin, N. Thirteen by Corwin, Radio Dramas. H. Holt and Company, 1942.
Destination Freedom. Internet Archive, 42 episodes.
Durham, Richard. Destination Freedom: Scripts from Radio’s Black Legacy, 1948-1950. Edited by J. Fred MacDonald, Praeger Press, 1989.
Hilmes, M., & Bottomley, A. The Oxford Handbook of Radio and Podcasting. Oxford University Press, 2024.
Kostelanetz, Richard. “Interview with Tony Schwartz, American Hörspielmacher.” Perspectives of New Music, vol. 34, no. 1, Winter 1996, pp. 57.
MacDonald, J. Fred. Don’t Touch That Dial!: Radio Programming in American Life, 1920-1960. Nelson-Hill Press, January 1, 1979.
MacDonald, J. Fred. Radio’s Black Heritage: Destination Freedom, 1948-1950. Phylon, vol. 39, no. 1, 1978.
Oboler, A. Oboler Omnibus: Radio Plays and Personalities. Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1945.
Porter, J. L. Lost Sound: The Forgotten Art of Radio Storytelling. The University of North Carolina Press, 2016.
Savage, B.D. Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948, University of North Carolina Press, May 31, 1999.
Schmidt, Michael. “‘Nancy Grows Up,’ the Media Age, and the Historian’s Craft.” The Appendix, vol. 1, no. 3, July 2013.
Schwartz, A. B. Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News. Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Schwartz, Tony. Tony Schwartz Collection, 1912-2008. Recorded Sound Research Center, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Serby, Benjamin. "Tony Schwartz’s New York Recordings: Sound, Place, and Civic Identity." The Gotham Center for New York History, www.gothamcenter.org.
Shapley, Olive. Broadcasting a Life: The Autobiography of Olive Shapley. Scarlet Pr, 1997.
Shapley, Olive. (interview excerpt) History of the BBC Archives, 1984.
Smith, J., & Verma, N. Anatomy of Sound: Norman Corwin and Media Authorship. University of California Press, 2016.
Stoever, J. L. The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening. New York University Press, 2016.
Stoever-Ackerman, J. “Splicing the Sonic Color-Line: Tony Schwartz Remixes Postwar Nueva York.” Social Text, vol. 28, no. 1, 2010, pp. 59-85.
Verma, N. Theater of the mind : imagination, aesthetics, and American radio drama. University of Chicago Press. 2012.
Williams, Sonja D. Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom. University of Illinois Press, August 30, 2015.
Williams, Sonja D. “Destination Freedom: A Historic Radio Series About Black Life." Journal of Radio and Audio Media, October 27, 2016, online.
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