English via the Airwaves: Recovering 1930s Radio Pedagogies

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PRODUCTION NOTES

This website was designed using Minimal CSS, which is licensed under an MIT License as part of the Open Source Initiative. All images used in this site are from the public domain.

Background music comes from the “Cartoon Music” collection of the 78 RPM and Cylinder Recordings section of the Open Source Audio Project, which is housed on the Internet Archive. Individual tracks include:

Green, P. (2009). “And they all lived happily ever after [Audio file]. Internet Archive. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/Q2_COMEDYCARTOON

---. (2009). Bedtime story [Audio file]. Internet Archive. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/Q2_COMEDYCARTOON

---. (2009). Clockwork clowns [Audio file]. Internet Archive. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/Q2_COMEDYCARTOON

---. (2009). Dawn in Birdland [Audio file]. Internet Archive. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/Q2_COMEDYCARTOON

---. (2009). Fred Karnos army [Audio file]. Internet Archive. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/Q2_COMEDYCARTOON

---. The giraffe [Audio file]. Internet Archive. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/Q2_COMEDYCARTOON

---. (2009). Nellie the nudist queen [Audio file]. Internet Archive. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/Q2_COMEDYCARTOON

---. (2009). Skeleton in the cupboard [Audio file]. Internet Archive. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/Q2_COMEDYCARTOON

---. (2009). The tin dragoons [Audio file]. Internet Archive. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/Q2_COMEDYCARTOON

Sound effects were downloaded from freesound.org, a collaborative database of Creative-Commons-licensed sound effects and music:

AdamWeeden. (2012). Video Game - Die or Lose Life [Audio file]. Freesound. Retrieved from http://freesound.org/people/AdamWeeden/sounds/157218/

Daphne_in_Wonderland. (2011). Ding.wav [Audio file]. Freesound. Retrieved from https://www.freesound.org/people/Daphne_in_Wonderland/sounds/127149/

Earlcash05. (2015). Fast reverse vortex.wav [Audio file.] Freesound. Retrieved from https://www.freesound.org/people/earlcash05/sounds/280222/

Foolboy Media. (2014). Notification up II [Audio file]. Freesound. Retrieved from http://freesound.org/people/FoolBoyMedia/sounds/234563/

Halleck. (2007). Record_scratch_short.wav [Audio file]. Freesound. Retrieved from https://www.freesound.org/people/Halleck/sounds/29938/

Musicmasta1. (2011). CarStartSkikCrash.wav [Audio file]. Freesound. Retrieved from http://www.freesound.org/people/Timbre/sounds/83916/

Pishpirika. (2011). Radio AM search am [Audio file.] Freesound. Retrieved from https://www.freesound.org/people/pishpirika/sounds/117926/

Plingativator. (2013). jawharp_boing.wav [Audio file]. Freesound. Retrieved from https://www.freesound.org/people/plingativator/sounds/188869/

Timbre. (2009). Benboncan_Sad_Trombone_Tweaked.wav [Audio file]. Retrieved from http://www.freesound.org/people/Timbre/sounds/83916/

Timbre. (2012).  Retro video game sweep [Audio file].  Freesound. Retrieved from http://freesound.org/people/Timbre/sounds/156522/

The piece was recorded, edited, and mixed in GarageBand 10.1.0 in Columbus, Ohio.