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Rediscover radio as it was broadcast during the Golden Age. From
shows fondly remembered to those long forgotten, this was the
experience of days spent listening to the radio during the early
part of the past century. This three-volume set, researched and
compiled by author Keith D. Lee, features published radio listings
from Los Angeles from 1929 through 1954, for the four major
networks and their local Los Angeles affiliates. This is volume 3
of 3.
For anyone researching any aspect of radio history or radio's
impact on the daily lives of four generations of Americans from the
1920s-1960s, this first-ever guide to 3,800 primary and secondary
sources focuses on radio history and radio's contribution to
America's cultural heritage from the 1920s-1960s. Includes 2,300
Special Collections in public and private repositories throughout
the United States, a Bibliography with 1,400 citations grouped into
54 user friendly categories from Advertising to World War II, 100+
research oriented Internet sites and an Index that integrates all
3,800 listings and which can be searched by program title, person
or subject.Listing of collections is especially valuable as it
pulls together...a host of potentially valuable resources,
annotating each one carefully.- Communication Booknotes Quarterly,
Spring 2006An amazing achievement to have located all that material
and put it into a form so easy to use. - Fuller French, The
Broadcast ARTS LibraryThe real pleasure of this book lies in
discovering the wealth of material scattered around the country in
smaller facilities. - Chuck Howell, Curator, Library of American
Broadcasting, College Park, MDThis guide is a wonderful new
resource for anyone interested in research on Old Time Radio. -
Jeanette M. Berard, Curator, American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks
Public Library
An exposition and analysis of the development of propaganda,
focusing on how the development of radio transformed the delivery
and impact of propaganda and led to the use of radio to incite
hatred and violence.
"A very solid and comprehensive collection of essays that allows
readers to witness more concretely the variety of forms that the
dialogue between literature and the radio has taken in the last
century. An outstanding book."--Jean-Michel Rabate, author of
"Jacques Lacan and Literature" "This book is a real gift: its
variety of essays in different voices provides an opportunity to
get up to speed with the sometimes suprising ways that radio helped
to structure modernism, served as a foil for modernist writers and
artists, and forced the modernists into a more constructive
engagement with issues of elite and popular culture. A lively
collection."--Kevin J.H. Dettmar, author of "Is Rock Dead?" It has
long been accepted that film helped shape the modernist novel and
that modernist poetry would be inconceivable without the
typewriter. Yet radio, a key influence on modernist literature,
remains the invisible medium. The contributors to "Broadcasting
Modernism" argue that radio led to changes in textual and generic
forms. Modernist authors embraced the emerging medium, creating
texts that were to be heard but not read, incorporating the device
into their stories, and using it to publicize their work. They saw
in radio the same spirit of experimentation that animated modernism
itself. Because early broadcasts were rarely recorded, radio's
influence on literary modernism often seems equally ephemeral in
the historical record. "Broadcasting Modernism" helps fill this
void, providing a new perspective for modernist studies even as it
reconfigures the landscape of the era itself. Debra Rae Cohen is
assistant professor of English at the University of South Carolina
Michael Coyle is professor of English at Colgate University. Jane
Lewty has published on radio and the work of Joyce, Woolf, and
Pound.
Kate Smith Speaks was the most listened-to program in daytime radio
during the 1940s. The mixture of folksy vignettes, news items, and
heartfelt editorials presented a slice of life on the home front.
Kate Smith was one of the three most popular female personalities
of the times, both as a vocalist and as a commentator. She liked
the informality of the "Speaks" broadcasts because it brought her
closer to her listeners. Travel back to the era before, during, and
after World War II through fifty actual scripts.
From stereotypes to role models, "Radio and the Jews" provides the
first comprehensive look at how Jews were portrayed on radio from
the 1920s to the 1950s. The test examines more than 100 Jewish
themes programs and characters, including comedy, drama, soap
opera, religious programs, and World War II programs.
Radio, the most widely used medium in the world, is a dominant
mediator of musical meaning. Through a combination of critical
analysis, interdisciplinary theory and ethnographic writing about
community radio, this book provides a novel theorisation of
democratic aesthetics, with important implications for the study of
old and new media alike.
Radio Pro is actually several books in one, covering every aspect
of personality radio-from the history of pioneer broadcasters to
how to become a successful personality. Forty-one-year radio pro
Joe Martelle also brings together a richly-varied selection of
candid comments on the subject from over 150 of America's best
broadcasters, seasoned pros, who tell it like it is and what it
takes to be a successful air and on-line personality. Containing
736 pages with hundreds of photos, Radio Pro is enlightening,
informative and thought provoking for both the radio student and
those interested in personality radio
The over 800 radio broadcasts summarized in this book combine
exciting, high-technology advancements of the 1940s with high
adventure - even by today's standards This is why Captain Midnight
riveted over 20 million people - equally among youths and adults -
to their radios around the globe. It's also why many fans went on
to become career aviators. Originally written by military pilot
Robert M. Burtt, and recovered by screenwriter and novelist Leonard
Zane, these post-WWII thrills are back So come climb aboard prop
and jet planes, and haaaapppyyy laaandiiiings
International in scope, this handbook provides an overview of the
historical developments and current status of the terrestrial radio
industry in some of the largest and most populated countries
throughout the world, with insightful and global perspectives by
prominent international media scholars and examinations of over 20
countries.
Back when phonographs were "Victrolas" and refrigerators were
"Frigidaires," radio was "The Philco." The voices that came from
that cathedral-shaped box thrilled listeners as it allowed their
imaginations to fly.Now, from the acclaimed author of such books as
Old-Time Radio Memories and The Old-Time Radio Trivia Book comes
Mel Simons latest treat, Voices from the Philco.
An examination of the development of local radio broadcasting and
the trend for locally-owned, locally-originated and
locally-accountable commercial radio stations to fall into the
hands of national and international media groups. Starkey traces
the early development of local radio through to present-day digital
environments.
Over the years the motion picture career of Jimmy Stewart has been
highly praised and well documented. But did you know that he also
had an extensive career on the radio? Among the pages of this well
researched book, you will read the detailed work of Stewart on the
radio. When Stewart lent his talent "on the air," radio was at its
prime and was the main source of entertainment in the homes of
America and around the world. Stewart was at the heart of all of
this. In all, his radio career spanned seven decades. He did comedy
with Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Bing Crosby and Mortimer Snerd. He did
drama on Lux Radio Theatre, Screen Guild Theater and Suspense. He
even brought some of his best films to the listening audience,
including Harvey, The Philadelphia Story and Winchester '73. Go
back now to those glory days of radio, when your "mind's eye" and a
healthy dose of imagination brought you genuine, clean fun and
entertainment. Back to a time when glamorous Hollywood stars
weren't afraid to have their voices do all the acting for them...no
makeup, no costumes, no pictures of any kind. Come back to a time
when Jimmy Stewart traveled the airwaves. Enjoy
IT BEGAN WITH TWO ANARCHISTS AND A PROMISE OF FREE LAUNDRY
Jeremy Lansman owned a low-wattage, listener-supported free-form
radio station with his mostly absentee partner, Lorenzo Milam, in a
seedy, decaying neighborhood in St. Louis. Jeremy was a radical, a
shit-stirrer, an electronics genius and a free thinker. Lorenzo was
brilliant, crippled, angry and odd. In the communal hippie ethos
that was suddenly everywhere, the station owned a washing machine
and invited everyone in the community to use it-free.
Laura Ellen Hopper was a St. Louis hippie runaway who heard about
the washing machine and, being of the community and needing clean
clothes, she went to the station, met Jeremy, and they became a
couple, living and working at the station.
Lorenzo had already moved on to other cities to squander his
fortune and his health on other non-commercial stations, but Jeremy
and Laura Ellen had other plans. They wanted out of St. Louis, so
they sold the station and got a startling amount of money for it.
They were going west. They had bigger fish to electrify.
And what they did there in Gilroy, California gave birth to
Americana music. It was also the last gasp of the Sixties and a bit
of history in its own right. And what a ride it was.
Memos to a New Millennium: The Final Radio Plays of Norman Corwin
presents, for the first time ever in print, a treasure-trove of
radio plays spanning fifty years in the extraordinary career of
radio's most famous dramatist. Subject matter for Corwin's radio
plays varied greatly. He was equally at ease writing light comedy
replete with mischievous rhymes as he was in crafting history
lessons that although written with poetic language, strike hard and
fast, delivering their import with expert efficiency. Be it
universal human rights, the power of prayer, the atomic bomb, the
origins of a national holiday, the birth of the Statue of Liberty,
the meaning of democracy and freedom in America, the struggle
between science and magic in our world, or an earnest memo to the
Third Millennium, Norman Corwin tackled it all with poise, humor,
and, above all, conviction. Beginning with Citizen of the World,
his final production for the CBS Radio Network in July 1949,
through his Peabody Award-winning years at United Nations Radio,
and culminating with his National Public Radio series finale, Memos
to a New Millennium broadcast on December 31, 1999, this book
covers the last half of the twentieth century as only Norman Corwin
could.
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