Purposeful Play: Women Radio Artists in Canadian Campus and Community Radio
Studies show that women are under-represented in Canadian campus and community radio. Based on ethnographic research and survey data, this article posits a theory of "purposeful play," a set of strategies employed by women radio artists to create community and find their voices on the air.
In and Out of the Sound Studio : Introduction
In the introduction to this special issue of Intersections, Andra McCartney and Ellen Waterman reflect on In and Out of the Sound Studio, an inter-university ethnographic research project funded by the SSHRC between 2001 and 2005. The research team studied ideas and practices of contemporary Canadian soundmakers, aiming to address the relative invisibility and inaudibility of women, and thinking about ways in which sound technologies and practices are gendered. In their essay, the authors discuss the relationships found among the terms gender, sound, and technology in terms of terminology, aesthetics, mentoring, methodology and theory. Contributions by McCartney, Diamond, Laplante, Labrosse, Marsh, and Bosma are discussed.
Negotiating the cultural and economic outcomes of sport heritage attractions: the case of the National Baseball Hall of Fame
ABSTRACT Contemporary museums must balance their roles as commercial entities and repositories of various, and often dissonant, heritages and histories. Sports museums in particular often have clear commercial and nostalgic aims, particularly through tourist visitation, though the extent to which they represent more challenging narratives remains unclear. This paper examines how one of the most famous sports museums in the world, the National Baseball Hall of Fame (NBHF) in Cooperstown, New York, balances its dual role as tourist attraction and repository of baseball's sometimes checkered past. It was found that different sections of the museum provide greater or lesser degrees of engagement with more controversial issues, although the commercial outputs and appeal of the museum remains clear throughout. Utlimately, the NBHF demonstrates that balancing veneration and critique in collections can be commercially prosperous, and can provide a template for other sport and popular culture museums who may be wary of incorporating more challenging narratives in their exhibits. Furthermore, the symbiotic relationship between the Hall of Fame and the village of Cooperstown, particularly in creating and maintaining cultural and economic outputs, requires further exploration.