#  From Jazz to Hip Hop: Radio as a Turnstile between White and African-American Cultures 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 9, 2016** 

 06:00PM - 06:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Science Center, Lecture Hall D, 1 Oxford St.**  



 

 



 

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**PROGRAM CANCELLED**

#### Susan J. Douglas, Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Communication Studies, The University of Michigan


Since the 1920s, radio has brought African-American music, voices, and humor into American homes. African-American culture, through radio, helped shape the tastes, cultural practices—indeed the very identities—of many white people, especially youth. Susan Douglas will review this history and argue that despite segregationist employment practices within the industry and racist depictions on the air, radio was the most desegregated of all mass media in the twentieth century. As a medium that denied sight to its audience, radio played a key role in breaking down racial barriers in the United States.

*Pictured above: Dorothy Brunson, the first African American woman in the nation to own a radio station.*

**Also of Interest**: *[Radio Contact: Tuning In to Politics, Technology, and Culture](/chsi_specex.html), an exhibition at the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, open through December 9, 2016.

Free event parking available at the [52 Oxford Street Garage](http://map.harvard.edu/?ctrx=760081.5&ctry=2963729.5&level=9&layers=Campus%20Base%20and%20Buildings,Map%20Text).



 

 



 

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