Listen Up!

Listen Up! is the first publication worldwide to take an in-depth look at the development of Radio Art in the United States as a distinct sound art practice. Analytical essays by leading media art historians and practitioners discuss the ways in which a new field took shape in the context of changing broadcast environments and sociopolitical realities from the1960s through the 1990s. The essays provide engaging reading for scholars, radio producers, and artists, as well as radio enthusiasts and lay audiences. Also included are manifestos and other texts written by Terry Allen, Jacki Apple, John Cage, Don Joyce / Negativland, Max Neuhaus, Pauline Oliveros, and Helen Thorington, and others. The material vividly reflects the zeitgeist of the period and proposes trajectories for new research into fascinating yet still largely unexplored territories.

Anne Thurmann-Jajes (Dr.) is head of the Centre for Artists' Publications at the Weserburg Museum of Modern Art and teaches at the University of Bremen, Germany. She co-chaired the research collaboration Radio Art: On the Development of a Medium between Aesthetics and Sociocultural Reception History, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation (2011-15). She has curated numerous major exhibitions and symposia on Radio Art. Regine Beyer is a radio documentarian with an expert knowledge of American Radio Art. She studied German literature and Journalism in Berlin (MA), worked at Sender Freies Berlin with radio pioneer Peter Leonhard Braun and other producers/directors. In 1986, she joined Helen Thorington in New York City as Co-Producer of the nationally distributed radio art series, New American Radio. She also taught college courses on creative radio production, and organized radio art presentations, exhibitions and events. In 2002, she relocated to Germany where she continues to be involved in various media-related activities.