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Listening In - Radio And The American Imagination (Paperback, 1st University of Minnesota Press ed)
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Listening In - Radio And The American Imagination (Paperback, 1st University of Minnesota Press ed)
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Loot Price R524
Discovery Miles 5 240
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Few inventions evoke such nostalgia, such deeply personal and vivid
memories as radio. Ask anyone born before World War II about radio,
and you'll see that person time-travel to the lost world of Duke
Ellington, Benny Goodman, and Arturo Toscanini; to the jokes of
Jack Benny and Burns and Allen; to the sobering commentary of
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Edward R. Murrow. Those born after World
War II grew up tuned to Jean Shepherd in the darkness of their
bedrooms; cruising with Sam Cooke, the Beatles, or the Doors;
talking back to Howard Stern, Rush Limbaugh, and Dr. Laura
Schlessinger. Listening In is the first in-depth history of how
radio culture and content have kneaded and expanded the American
psyche.
But Listening In is more than a history. It is also a
reconsideration of what listening to radio has done to American
culture in the twentieth century and how it has brought a
completely new auditory dimension to our lives. Susan Douglas
explores how listening has altered our day-to-day experiences and
our own generational identities, cultivating different modes of
listening in different eras; how radio has shaped our views of
race, gender roles, ethic barriers, family dynamics, leadership,
and the generation gap.
How we listened, where we listened, who we listened to and why:
With her trademark wit and erudition, Susan Douglas has created an
eminently readable cultural history of radio that fixes its place
in our lives as shaper and reflector of our passions and
obsessions.
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