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Radio's Legacy in Popular Culture - The Sounds of British Broadcasting over the Decades (Hardcover)
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Radio's Legacy in Popular Culture - The Sounds of British Broadcasting over the Decades (Hardcover)
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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.
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