{"id":49993,"date":"2021-07-20T23:30:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T06:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/?p=49993"},"modified":"2021-07-20T23:30:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T06:30:34","slug":"podcast-307-battling-over-violence-sex-and-womens-roles-on-postwar-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/2021\/07\/podcast-307-battling-over-violence-sex-and-womens-roles-on-postwar-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast #307 &#8211; Battling over Violence, Sex and Women&#8217;s Roles on Postwar Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1969\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-49993-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_survivor\/content.blubrry.com\/radio_survivor\/RS307_CatherineMartin_WEBedit.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_survivor\/content.blubrry.com\/radio_survivor\/RS307_CatherineMartin_WEBedit.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_survivor\/content.blubrry.com\/radio_survivor\/RS307_CatherineMartin_WEBedit.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_survivor\/content.blubrry.com\/radio_survivor\/RS307_CatherineMartin_WEBedit.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"RS307_CatherineMartin_WEBedit.mp3\">Download<\/a> | <a href=\"#\" class=\"powerpress_link_e\" title=\"Embed\" onclick=\"return powerpress_show_embed('49993-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_embed_box\" id=\"powerpress_embed_49993-podcast\" style=\"display: none;\"><input id=\"powerpress_embed_49993-podcast_t\" type=\"text\" value=\"&lt;iframe width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;30&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/?powerpress_embed=49993-podcast&amp;amp;powerpress_player=mediaelement-audio&quot; title=&quot;Blubrry Podcast Player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot;&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\" onclick=\"javascript: this.select();\" onfocus=\"javascript: this.select();\" style=\"width: 70%;\" readOnly><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2wB8PCDI4ae4Zy5KQJDnWH\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Radio-Survivor-p1065771\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/feed\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/subscribe-to-podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On this week&#8217;s show, we take a trip back in time to look at radio in the 1940s and 1950s. During this post-war period, women&#8217;s roles were shifting in the workplace and in popular media. Television arrived on the scene, bringing with it some, but not all, of the programming that people knew and loved from radio. Battles were also brewing over radio content, including violence, sex, and portrayals of family life. Our guest, scholar Catherine Martin, has been poring over FCC complaint letters from this period and explains what all the fuss was about. She is Visiting Assistant Professor in Media Studies in Denison University&#8217;s Department of Communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Show Notes:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Catherine Martin&#8217;s article <a href=\"https:\/\/usso.uk\/eliminating-blood-and-thunder-from-containment-culture-audience-efforts-to-censor-postwar-radio-programming-in-the-run-up-to-television\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eliminating &#8220;Blood and Thunder&#8221; from Containment Culture: Audience Efforts to Censor Postwar Radio Programming in the Run-up to Television<\/a> (U.S. Studies Online)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/radiopreservation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Radio Preservation Task Force<\/a>, a project of the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress<\/li><li>Jennifer Stoever&#8217;s book, <a href=\"https:\/\/nyupress.org\/9781479889341\/the-sonic-color-line\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening<\/a><\/li><li>Podcast #132: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/2018\/03\/podcast-132-sounding-out-on-the-cultural-politics-of-sound-listening\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sounding Out on the Cultural Politics of Sound &amp; Listening<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/utpress.utexas.edu\/books\/jaramillo-the-television-code\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Television Code: Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry<\/a> by Deborah Jaramillo<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guiding_Light\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Guiding Light<\/a> is one of the longest running soap operas on radio and television, airing in some form from 1937 to 2009<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/MrandMrsNorth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mr. and Mrs. North<\/a> radio show episodes on the Internet Archive<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Adventures_of_the_Thin_Man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Adventures of the Thin Man<\/a><\/li><li>Podcast #14: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/2015\/09\/radio-survivor-podcast-14-the-grassroots-radio-conference-celebrating-college-radio-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Matthew Lasar Chats about Mae West<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/2011\/01\/should-nbc-finally-apologize-to-mae-west\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Should NBC Finally Apologize to Mae West?<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Radio-Reader-Essays-in-the-Cultural-History-of-Radio\/Hilmes-Loviglio\/p\/book\/9780415928212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Radio Reader: Essays in the Cultural History of Radio<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book\/9780520254947\/vocal-tracks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vocal Tracks: Performance and Sound Media<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DuMont_Television_Network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DuMont Television Network<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Honey_West_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Honey West<\/a> was a television crime drama series that aired 1965-66<\/li><li>Podcast #135 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/2018\/03\/podcast-135-resurfacing-womens-contributions-in-podcasting-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Resurfacing Women&#8217;s Contributions in Podcasting History<\/a> with guest Jennifer Wang<\/li><li>Podcast #289 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/2021\/03\/podcast-289-celebrating-women-in-sound\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Celebrating Women in Sound<\/a> with guests Jennifer Wang and Jennifer Stoever<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/listening-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination<\/a> by Susan Douglas<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/kpfa.org\/episode\/arts-waves-on-cover-to-cover-april-22-2019\/\">George RR Martin talks about censorship on TV in the 90&#8217;s<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Image Credit: Stockton Helffrich, &#8220;Memo from Stockton Helffrich to John Cleary,&#8221; February 2, 1955, Folder 112; Box 349; National Broadcasting Company Records, 1921-1976, Wisconsin Historical Society.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this week&#8217;s show, we take a trip back in time to look at radio in the 1940s and 1950s. During this post-war period, women&#8217;s roles were shifting in the workplace and in popular media. 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