The Golden Age of Radio
Author | : Denis Gifford |
Publisher | : Trafalgar Square Publishing |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Denis Gifford |
Publisher | : Trafalgar Square Publishing |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jim Cox |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2013-09-19 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1476612099 |
What became of radio after its Golden Age ended about 1960? Not long ago Arbitron found that almost 93 percent of Americans age 12 and older are regular radio listeners, a higher percentage than those turning to television, magazines, newspapers, or the Internet. But the sounds they hear now barely resemble those of radio’s heyday when it had little competition as a mass entertainment and information source. Much has transpired in the past fifty-plus years: a proliferation of disc jockeys, narrowcasting, the FM band, satellites, automation, talk, ethnicity, media empires, Internet streaming and gadgets galore... Deregulation, payola, HD radio, pirate radio, the fall of transcontinental networks, the rise of local stations, conglomerate ownership, and radio’s future landscape are examined in detail. Radio has lost a bit of influence yet it continues to inspire stunning innovations.
Author | : Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2017-10-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0520967941 |
The king of radio comedy from the Great Depression through the early 1950s, Jack Benny was one of the most influential entertainers in twentieth-century America. A master of comic timing and an innovative producer, Benny, with his radio writers, developed a weekly situation comedy to meet radio’s endless need for new material, at the same time integrating advertising into the show’s humor. Through the character of the vain, cheap everyman, Benny created a fall guy, whose frustrated struggles with his employees addressed midcentury America’s concerns with race, gender, commercialism, and sexual identity. Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley contextualizes her analysis of Jack Benny and his entourage with thoughtful insight into the intersections of competing entertainment industries and provides plenty of evidence that transmedia stardom, branded entertainment, and virality are not new phenomena but current iterations of key aspects in American commercial cultural history.
Author | : Alfred Balk |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
A sweep of radio history from its birth as Marconi's "wireless telegraph" through its status under deregulation, this book analyzes the changing medium's social, political, and cultural impact. It casts light on many topics, including the roles of women and African Americans, programming sources outside the Hollywood-Broadway nexus, and more.
Author | : Norman H. Finkelstein |
Publisher | : Dissertation.com |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000-09-12 |
Genre | : Radio broadcasting |
ISBN | : 9780595131907 |
"Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear..." In this unique contribution to American social history, Normal Finkelstein explores the Golden Age of radio broadcasting from the Great Depression through World War II. Radio became the common experience that unified a diverse America, providing entertainment, news and information, which unified all Americans. Quoted passages from old programs and commercials provide readers with the flavor of what radio used to be.
Author | : Randal L. Hall |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2021-12-14 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 081318925X |
In the 1930s radio stations filled the airwaves with programs and musical performances about rural Americans—farmers and small-town residents struggling through the Great Depression. One of the most popular of these shows was Lum and Abner, the brainchild of Chester "Chet" Lauck and Norris "Tuffy" Goff, two young businessmen from Arkansas. Beginning in 1931 and lasting for more than two decades, the show revolved around the lives of ordinary people in the fictional community of Pine Ridge, based on the hamlet of Waters, Arkansas. The title characters, who are farmers, local officials, and the keepers of the Jot 'Em Down Store, manage to entangle themselves in a variety of hilarious dilemmas. The program's gentle humor and often complex characters had wide appeal both to rural southerners, who were accustomed to being the butt of jokes in the national media, and to urban listeners who were fascinated by descriptions of life in the American countryside. Lum and Abner was characterized by the snappy, verbal comedic dueling that became popular on radio programs of the 1930s. Using this format, Lauck and Goff allowed their characters to subvert traditional authority and to poke fun at common misconceptions about rural life. The show also featured hillbilly and other popular music, an innovation that drew a bigger audience. As a result, Arkansas experienced a boom in tourism, and southern listeners began to immerse themselves in a new national popular culture. In Lum and Abner: Rural America and the Golden Age of Radio, historian Randal L. Hall explains the history and importance of the program, its creators, and its national audience. He also presents a treasure trove of twenty-nine previously unavailable scripts from the show's earliest period, scripts that reveal much about the Great Depression, rural life, hillbilly stereotypes, and a seminal period of American radio.
Author | : Philip Collins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Radio |
ISBN | : |
Fotos und Beschreibungen amerikanischer Radioapparate.
Author | : Jim Cox |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2013-04-06 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1476601194 |
This history of radio news reporting recounts and assesses the contributions of radio toward keeping America informed since the 1920s. It identifies distinct periods and milestones in broadcast journalism and includes a biographical dictionary of important figures who brought news to the airwaves. Americans were dependent on radio for cheap entertainment during the Great Depression and for critical information during the Second World War, when no other medium could approach its speed and accessibility. Radio's diminished influence in the age of television beginning in the 1950s is studied, as the aural medium shifted from being at the core of many families' activities to more specialized applications, reaching narrowly defined listener bases. Many people turned elsewhere for the news. (And now even TV is challenged by yet newer media.) The introduction of technological marvels throughout the past hundred years has significantly altered what Americans hear and how, when, and where they hear it.
Author | : Jim Cox |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2013-09-30 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0786474343 |
What became of radio after its Golden Age ended about 1960? Not long ago Arbitron found that almost 93 percent of Americans age 12 and older are regular radio listeners, a higher percentage than those turning to television, magazines, newspapers, or the Internet. But the sounds they hear now barely resemble those of radio's heyday when it had little competition as a mass entertainment and information source. Much has transpired in the past fifty-plus years: a proliferation of disc jockeys, narrowcasting, the FM band, satellites, automation, talk, ethnicity, media empires, Internet streaming and gadgets galore... Deregulation, payola, HD radio, pirate radio, the fall of transcontinental networks, the rise of local stations, conglomerate ownership, and radio's future landscape are examined in detail. Radio has lost a bit of influence yet it continues to inspire stunning innovations.
Author | : Barbara Dianne Savage |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780807848043 |
Tells how Blacks used radio