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Radio's Legacy in Popular Culture

Author : Martin Cooper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501360426
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Radio's Legacy in Popular Culture written by Martin Cooper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining work by novelists, filmmakers, TV producers and songwriters, this book uncovers the manner in which the radio – and the act of listening – has been written about for the past 100 years. Ever since the first public wireless broadcasts, people have been writing about the radio: often negatively, sometimes full of praise, but always with an eye and an ear to explain and offer an opinion about what they think they have heard. Novelists including Graham Greene, Agatha Christie, Evelyn Waugh, and James Joyce wrote about characters listening to this new medium with mixtures of delight, frustration, and despair. Clint Eastwood frightened moviegoers half to death in Play Misty for Me, but Lou Reed's 'Rock & Roll' said listening to a New York station had saved Jenny's life. Frasier showed the urbane side of broadcasting, whilst Good Morning, Vietnam exploded from the cinema screen with a raw energy all of its own. Queen thought that all the audience heard was 'ga ga', even as The Buggles said video had killed the radio star and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers lamented 'The Last DJ'. This book explores the cultural fascination with radio; the act of listening as a cultural expression – focusing on fiction, films and songs about radio. Martin Cooper, a broadcaster and academic, uses these movies, TV shows, songs, novels and more to tell a story of listening to the radio – as created by these contemporary writers, filmmakers, and musicians.

Radio's Legacy in Popular Culture

Author : Martin Cooper (College teacher)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781501360411
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Radio's Legacy in Popular Culture written by Martin Cooper (College teacher) and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the enduring cultural fascination with radio by looking at 100 years of the representation of radio in fiction, film, TV and pop music

Radio Reader

Author : Michele Hilmes
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415928212
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book Radio Reader written by Michele Hilmes and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Radio's America

Author : Bruce Lenthall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Radio's America written by Bruce Lenthall and published by . This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture: Pulps and dime novels through young adult fiction

Author : M. Thomas Inge
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture: Pulps and dime novels through young adult fiction written by M. Thomas Inge and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2002 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains fifty-eight articles that provide information about various forms, genres, or themes of popular culture, and includes illustrations, photo essays, a chronological survey of each topic's history, and a comprehensive index.

Vic and Sade on the Radio

Author : John T. Hetherington
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476616051
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Vic and Sade on the Radio written by John T. Hetherington and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vic and Sade, an often absurd situation comedy written by the prolific Paul Rhymer, aired on America’s radios from 1932 to 1944 (with short-lived revivals afterward). The title characters, known as “radio’s home folks,” were a married couple exploring the comedic side of ordinary life along with their adopted son and an eccentric uncle. This book examines the program’s depiction of many aspects of American culture—leisure activities, community groups, education, films—in light of the critiques put forward by the era’s critics such as William Orton. Vic and Sade offered its own subtle cultural critique that reflected how ordinary people experienced mass culture of the time.

Jews and American Popular Culture: Movies, radio, and television

Author : Paul Buhle
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jews and American Popular Culture: Movies, radio, and television written by Paul Buhle and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2007 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume work tells the story of how Jewish Americans overcame anti-Semitism, anti-immigrant biases, and poverty to shape American film, television, music, sports, literature, food, and humor.

Talking Radio

Author :
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765641915
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Talking Radio written by and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses an oral history approach incorporating comments by such people as Steve Allen, Ray Bradbury, Dick Clark, Walter Cronkite, Larry Gelbart, Paul Harvey, Art Linkletter, Ed McMahon, Daniel Schorr, and many other personalities.

Lum and Abner

Author : Randal L. Hall
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813172780
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Lum and Abner written by Randal L. Hall and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Hello, Everybody!

Author : Anthony Rudel
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547444117
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Hello, Everybody! written by Anthony Rudel and published by HMH. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A lively overview” of this pre-internet mass-communication tool and “the entrepreneurs and evangelists, hucksters and opportunists” who flocked to it (Publishers Weekly). Long before the Internet, another young technology was transforming the way we connect with the world. At the dawn of the twentieth century, radio grew from an obscure hobby into a mass medium with the power to reach millions of people. 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, innovating styles of mass communication and entertainment while making bedlam of the airwaves. Into this wild new frontier stepped a young secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover, whose passion for organization transformed radio into an even more powerful political, cultural and economic force. When a charismatic bandleader named Rudy Vallée created the first on-air variety show and America elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who communicated with the public through his famous fireside chats, radio had arrived. With extensive knowledge, humor, and an eye for outsized characters forgotten by history, Anthony Rudel tells the story of the boisterous years when radio took its place in the nation’s living room. “Entertaining and informative.” —The Denver Post “Rudel, with extensive professional radio experience, revels in the enterprising personalities who set up shop on this technological frontier. . . .[And] vividly re-creates the anything-goes atmosphere of the ether’s early days.” —Booklist

The Portable Radio in American Life

Author : Michael B. Schiffer
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816512841
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Portable Radio in American Life written by Michael B. Schiffer and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an artifact of culture, the portable radio is an unusual but perfect subject for investigation by archaeologist Schiffer. Seeing the history of everyday objects as the history of the life of a people, he shows how the portable radio has reflected changes in American society as surely as clay pots have for ancient cultures.

The Legacy of the Disinherited

Author : Ton Salman
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of the Disinherited written by Ton Salman and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular culture tends to simultaneously lose and gain in the era of globalization. The singularity and internal self-reproduction of popular cultures have dwindled, but at the same time their vibrancy and dynamics have thrived and multiplied. This volume covers subjects ranging from the relations between Indians and Spaniards in Colonial Mexico, through the contemporary statures of popular cultures of the Chilean urban poor, the Brazilian traditionalists, and the Bahian black youth, to the fate of commercialized Mexican handicraft.

Radio After the Golden Age

Author : Jim Cox
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476612099
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Radio After the Golden Age written by Jim Cox and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Radio's America

Author : Bruce Lenthall
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226471934
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Radio's America written by Bruce Lenthall and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orson Welles’s greatest breakthrough into the popular consciousness occurred in 1938, three years before Citizen Kane, when his War of the Worlds radio broadcast succeeded so spectacularly that terrified listeners believed they were hearing a genuine report of an alien invasion—a landmark in the history of radio’s powerful relationship with its audience. In Radio’s America, Bruce Lenthall documents the enormous impact radio had on the lives of Depression-era Americans and charts the formative years of our modern mass culture. Many Americans became alienated from their government and economy in the twentieth century, and Lenthall explains that radio’s appeal came from its capability to personalize an increasingly impersonal public arena. His depictions of such figures as proto-Fascist Charles Coughlin and medical quack John Brinkley offer penetrating insight into radio’s use as a persuasive tool, and Lenthall’s book is unique in its exploration of how ordinary Americans made radio a part of their lives. Television inherited radio’s cultural role, and as the voting tallies for American Idol attest, broadcasting continues to occupy a powerfully intimate place in American life. Radio’s America reveals how the connections between power and mass media began.

Listener Supported

Author : Jack W. Mitchell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031301793X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Listener Supported written by Jack W. Mitchell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-03-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public radio stands as a valued national institution, one whose fans and listeners actively support it with their time and their money. In this new history of this important aspect of American culture, author Jack W. Mitchell looks at the dreams that inspired those who created it, the all-too- human realities that grew out of those dreams, and the criticism they incurred from both sides of the political spectrum. As National Public Radio's very first employee, and the first producer of its legendary All Things Considered, Mitchell tells the story of public radio from the point of view of an insider, a participant, and a thoughtful observer. He traces its origins in the progressive movement of the 20th century, and analyzes the people, institutions, ideas, political forces, and economic realities that helped it evolve into what we know as public radio today. NPR and its local affiliates have earned their reputation for thoughtful commentary and excellent journalism, and their work is especially notable in light of the unique struggles they have faced over the decades. This comprehensive overview of their mission will fascinate listeners whose enjoyment and support of public radio has made it possible, and made it great.

Selling the Sixties

Author : Robert Chapman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134896247
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Selling the Sixties written by Robert Chapman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was it a non-stop psychedelic party or was there more to pirate radio in the sixties than hedonism and hip radicalism? From Kenny Everett's sacking to John Peel's legendary `Perfumed Garden' show, to the influence of the multi-national ad agencies, and the eventual assimilationof aspects of unofficial pop radio into Radio One, Selling the Sixties examines the boom of private broadcasting in Britain. Using two contrasting models of pop piracy, Radios Caroline and London, Robert Chapman sets pirate radio in its social and cultural context. In doing so he challenges the myths surrounding its maverick `Kings Road' image, separating populist consumerism from the economic and political machinations which were the flipside of the pirate phenomenon. Selling the Sixties includes previously unseen evidence from the pirates' archives, revealing interviews and an unrivalled selection of rare audio materials.

Radio Cultures

Author : Michael C. Keith
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820486482
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Radio Cultures written by Michael C. Keith and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Radio Cultures examines the manifold ways in which radio has influenced the nation's social and cultural environment since its inception nearly a century ago. Written by leading scholars in the field, chapters address a wide range of topics, including how this powerful medium has impacted and affected non-mainstream segments of the population throughout its history and how these repressed and neglected groups have employed radio to counter and overcome discrimination and bias. The use of the audio medium for political, economic, and religious purposes is comprehensively probed and analyzed in this insightful and innovative volume."--Back cover.