The Golden Age of Radio in the Home
Author | : John Whitley Stokes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Whitley Stokes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Denis Gifford |
Publisher | : Trafalgar Square Publishing |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Harvey Sheldon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2013-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781481235242 |
Still in the grasp of the Great Depression, the 1930's gave rise to a wealth of fresh Americana based upon inexpensive forms of entertainment. Ten-cent motion pictures, cheap reading material, and free radio programs came from a few of the industries that prospered during the decade, and their influence was felt deeply and is remembered warmly by millions of people. It was truly a Golden Age for films, radio programs, and comicsRadio became widespread. Listening was free and grew into a national pastime that linked people through popular programs that stimulated hours of conversation about what was heard. Little Orphan Annie, Buck Rogers, and Dick Tracy were the popular comic strip characters who found a second home on the air waves. The Lone Ranger and Jack Armstrong were created specifically for radio and later found their way into comic forms. Eddie Cantor, Ed Wynn, Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen evolved from stage personalities to great radio personalitiesRadio became widespread. Listening was free and grew into a national pastime that linked people through popular programs that stimulated hours of conversation about what was heard. Little Orphan Annie, Buck Rogers, and Dick Tracy were the popular comic strip characters who found a second home on the air waves. The Lone Ranger and Jack Armstrong were created specifically for radio and later found their way into comic forms. Eddie Cantor, Ed Wynn, Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen evolved from stage personalities to great radio personalities.Radio broadcasting its wide range of live music, comedy, variety shows, and dramatic programming served as a welcome escape from those troubled times. Even though many people couldn't afford payments on their washing machines, vacuum cleaners, or Model A Fords, they desperately struggled to keep up payments on their radios of that era weren't just small devices in plastic cases; they were built into large wooden cases that amounted to elaborate pieces of furniture.
Author | : Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
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 | : Cynthia B. Meyers |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2013-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0823253767 |
During the “golden age” of radio, from roughly the late 1920s until the late 1940s, advertising agencies were arguably the most important sources of radio entertainment. Most nationally broadcast programs on network radio were created, produced, written, and/or managed by advertising agencies: for example, J. Walter Thompson produced “Kraft Music Hall” for Kraft; Benton & Bowles oversaw “Show Boat” for Maxwell House Coffee; and Young & Rubicam managed “Town Hall Tonight” with comedian Fred Allen for Bristol-Myers. Yet this fact has disappeared from popular memory and receives little attention from media scholars and historians. By repositioning the advertising industry as a central agent in the development of broadcasting, author Cynthia B. Meyers challenges conventional views about the role of advertising in culture, the integration of media industries, and the role of commercialism in broadcasting history. Based largely on archival materials, A Word from Our Sponsor mines agency records from the J. Walter Thompson papers at Duke University, which include staff meeting transcriptions, memos, and account histories; agency records of BBDO, Benton & Bowles, Young & Rubicam, and N. W. Ayer; contemporaneous trade publications; and the voluminous correspondence between NBC and agency executives in the NBC Records at the Wisconsin Historical Society. Mediating between audiences’ desire for entertainment and advertisers’ desire for sales, admen combined “showmanship” with “salesmanship” to produce a uniquely American form of commercial culture. In recounting the history of this form, Meyers enriches and corrects our understanding not only of broadcasting history but also of advertising history, business history, and American cultural history from the 1920s to the 1940s.
Author | : Ed Salamon |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738572239 |
Pittsburgh is the birthplace of radio, the location of many of radio's first and most influential stations and broadcast personalities, and a key market for the development of new formats. Pittsburghers' reaction to the music they heard on the radio helped to break records and create stars. Radio provided an unprecedented audience for live performances by local artists. After the big band era, radio gave voice to pop, rock and roll, and rhythm and blues. Pittsburgh's Golden Age of Radio celebrates the city's radio history, deejays, contests, concerts, public service, and promotions from radio's beginnings in the 1920s through the late 1970s, when listening on FM exceeded that on AM for the first time.
Author | : Barbara Dianne Savage |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780807848043 |
Tells how Blacks used radio
Author | : Jim Cox |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2015-06-14 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1476612277 |
In the early days of radio, producers, directors and scriptwriters were well aware of the listening public's fascination with subject matter tinged with wrongdoing. Stories of right and wrong, crime and punishment, and law and order kept audiences of every age hooked for more than thirty years. This work covers 300+ syndicated radio mystery and adventure serials that aired in the early or middle twentieth century. To be included, a series must have had one or more regularly appearing characters who fought against espionage, theft, murder and other crimes. Each entry includes series name, air dates, sponsor, extant episodes, cast information and synopsis.
Author | : Anthony J. Rudel |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 015101275X |
When amateur enthusiasts began sending fuzzy signals from their garages and rooftops, radio broadcasting was born. Sensing the medium's potential, snake-oil salesmen and preachers took to the air, at once setting early standards for radio programming and making bedlam of the airwaves. Into the chaos stepped a young secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover, whose passion for organization guided the technology's growth. When a charismatic bandleader named Rudy Vallee created the first on-air variety show and America elected its first true radio president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, radio had arrived. Rudel tells the story of the boisterous years when radio took its place in the nation's living room and forever changed American politics, journalism, and entertainment.