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Radio Fun and the BBC Variety Department, 1922-67 - Comedy and Popular Music on Air (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019) Loot Price: R2,216
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Radio Fun and the BBC Variety Department, 1922-67 - Comedy and Popular Music on Air (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Martin Dibbs

Radio Fun and the BBC Variety Department, 1922-67 - Comedy and Popular Music on Air (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

Martin Dibbs

Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media

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This book provides a narrative history of the BBC Radio Variety Department exploring, along chronological lines, the workings of, tensions within and the impact of BBC policies on the programme-making department which generated the organisation's largest audiences. It provides an insight into key events, personalities, programmes, internal politics and trends in popular entertainment, censorship and anti-American policy as they individually or collectively affected the Department. Martin Dibbs examines how the Department's programmes became markers in the daily and weekly lives of millions of listeners, and helped shape the nation's listening habits when radio was the dominant source of domestic entertainment. The book explores events and topics which, while not directly forming part of the Variety Department's history, nevertheless intersected with or had an impact on it. Such topics include the BBC's attitude to jazz and rock and roll, the arrival of television with its impact on radio, the pirate radio stations, and the Popular Music and Gramophone Departments, both of whom worked closely with the Variety Department.

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Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
Release date: September 2018
First published: 2019
Authors: Martin Dibbs
Dimensions: 210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 298
Edition: 1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13: 978-3-319-95608-4
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Radio
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies
Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
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LSN: 3-319-95608-6
Barcode: 9783319956084

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