Raised on Radio (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
544
Utgivningsdatum
2000-08-01
Upplaga
New ed
Förlag
University of California Press
Illustrationer
81 black-and-white illustrations
Dimensioner
228 x 153 x 36 mm
Vikt
863 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780520223035

Raised on Radio

in Quest of the Lone Ranger ...

av Gerald Nachman
Häftad,  Engelska, 2000-08-01
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In the late 1920s radio exploded almost overnight into being America's dominant entertainment, just as television would do twenty-five years later. Gerald Nachman, himself a product of the radio years, takes us back to the heyday of radio, bringing to life the great performers and shows, as well as the not-so-great and not-great-at-all. Nachman analyzes the many genres that radio exploited or invented, from the soap opera to the sitcom to the quiz show, zooming in to study closely key performers like Jack Benny, Bob Hope, and Fred Allen. Raised on Radio is a generous, instructive, and sinfully readable salute to an extraordinary American phenomenon.
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"Nachman takes such delight in chronicling the medium's rise and fall that even readers raised away from radio will understand why a whole generation projected their imaginations onto this vast sonic canvas."--"Publishers Weekly"

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Gerald Nachman has for thirty-eight years covered theater, movies, cabaret, and television for newspapers and magazines across the country. The author of three previous books, he lives in San Francisco.

Innehållsförteckning

PREFACE Background Music INTRODUCTION Bedtime Stories 1 Radio-Free America 2 Vaudio 3 The Anticomedian 4 Nesting Instincts 5 Treadmill to Posterity 6 Wise Guys Finish First 7 Jokes, Inc. 8 For Your Listening and Dancing Pleasure 9 The Children's Hour 181 10 Saddle Sore 11 Valued Families 12 No WASPs Need Apply 13 We'll Be Back Right after These Words 14 A Voice of Another Color 15 Radio Noir-Cops and Grave Robbers 16 Minds over Matter 17 Just Folks 18 The Soap Factory 19 The Royal Family 20 Meet the Press 21 Best Seats in the House 22 Crunch, Creak, Crash, Whoosh, Wham, and Whoo-oooo 23 The Unseen Audience 24 We're a Little Late, Folks, So Good Night ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTERVIEWS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX PHOTO CREDITS

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