This is definitely still very "rough." But here's my start:
National Public Radio in the Contemporary American Art Market
As both a forum for the arts and as an art form unto itself
- NPR: history and founding principles
- NPR and the development of cultural and intellectual authority
- Branding
- Cultivating a reputation as "non-commercial"
- NPR and Bourdieu's theory of market disavowal
- "Highbow" and "lowbrow" cultural dialog and parallels to the art world at large
- Elements of NPR's art programming
- NPR's role as a cultural artifact and a cultural liaison in the United States
- Controversies about NPR
- Is NPR elitist?
- Is NPR liberal? Is NPR conservative?
Sources (Developing List)
Npr.org
Mitchell, Jack W. (2005.) Listener Supported: The culture and history of public radio. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.
McCauley, Michael P. (2005.) NPR: The trials and triumphs of National Public Radio. New York: Columbia University Press.
Book Review: "Listener Supported: The culture and history of Public Radio"; "NPR: The trials and triumphs of National Public Radio." Spaulding, Stacy. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 51, no. 3 (2007): 547-548.
Nunberg, Geoffrey. (2001.) The way we talk now: Commentaries on language and culture from NPR's "Fresh Air." Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Henderson, Lisa. "Storyline and the multicultural highbrow: Reading women's culture on National Public Radio." Critical Studies in Media Communication, 16, no. 3 (1999): 329-349.
Velthius, Olav. (2007.) Talking Prices: Symbolic meanings of prices on the market for contemporary art. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Thompson, Don. (2007.) The $12M Stuffed Shark. Palgrave/MacMillan.