Breaking new ground, this anniversary-volume devoted to history and theory of global radio play offers an initial exemplary cross-cultural as well as intercultural investigation by inviting its readership to compare distinct disseminative modes in their development from continent to continent. This multifaceted analysis is a collaborative multinational effort of scholars from various disciplines, including literature, anthropology, media, audio, gender, theater, and cultural transfer studies, who are magnifying the soundscapes of audio narratology in Japan, Korea, India, sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, Australia, Argentina, Romania, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Eastern and Western Germany, and Austria. Through this recalibrated approach towards formerly segregated soundscapes, the book aspires to transcend research boundaries rendered by national languages.