On this week’s show we take a look at the ways that Native Americans used sound technology during radio’s earliest days and how that inspired and led to the flourishing Native media landscape, including tribal radio stations. Our guest, Josh Garrett-Davis, is Associate Curator at the Autry Museum and author of a recently completed dissertation:
Resounding Voices: Native Americans and Sound Media, 1890-1970.
Show Notes:
Autry Museum of the American West website: https://theautry.org/
The “Tribal Drum” of Radio: Gathering Together the Archive of American Indian Radio (piece on Sounding Out!) https://soundstudiesblog.com/2015/02/19/the-tribal-drum-of-radio-gathering-together-the-archive-of-american-indian-radio/
KILI radio, the voice of the Lakota Nation: http://www.kiliradio.org/
Center for the Study of American West announces 2020 winner for Outstanding Western Book
From WTAMU Newsroom
CANYON West Texas A&M University’s Center for the Study of the American West announces the winner of its second annual CSAW Award for Outstanding Western Book: Josh Garrett-Davis’s “What is a Western?: Region, Genre, Imagination.”
CSAW will host a virtual award reception and lecture with Garrett-Davis at March 4, 2021, via Zoom (visit wtamu.edu/csaw to register). Signed copies will be available for purchase at Burrowing Owl Books.
Published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2019, Garrett-Davis’s book is comprised of a probing series of essays that explores representations of the American West in popular culture, from Hollywood to Japan, from Native America to Dr. Seuss, and beyond.