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Book 2019, the varying uses of CB radio by white and African American citizens in the 1970s, and the emergence of audible queerness, Art M. Blake attunes us to the sounds of race, mobility, and audible difference. As he argues, marginalized groups disrupted the postwar machine age by using new media technologies to make themselves heard..

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nology by African Americans.Appeals to scholars and studentsIn the second half of the twentieth century, new sounds began to reverberate across the United States. The voices of African-Americans as well as of women, Latinx, queer, and trans people broke through in social movements, street protests,

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America in Color: The Postwar Audible Spectrum,ew York in large numbers from 1948 to 1958, their presence represented certainly an audible, if not always a visible, sea change in many working-class neighborhoods—places already under increasing pressure in that same decade from urban planning initiatives to rid the city of “blight” by demolishing vital, if poor, tenement neighborhoods.

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The Sounds of White Vulnerability,order, certainly with a mostly white, male network of “good buddies” eager to effect control over their individual and community lives. In Los Angeles in particular, the local racial-political context during the years of the CB radio fad—roughly 1975–1978—created an ideal environment for such racial

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Mobilizing Black Technoculture,s: of the politics of black speech and oral culture; of the role of radio programming in the creation of black cultural identity; and of race and technology. Black CB also shows how “community” and “identity” do not necessarily originate through direct contact and communication. As this chapter show

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Queering the Spectrum from Radio to Local TV, white Americans. In the same Los Angeles area ranked by the Federal Communications Commissions as having the highest numbers of CB radio users, and in the same time period, listeners identifying as gay or lesbian could hear similarly identified presenters speaking to them about their community. Unl