20th century american history
20th century american technology
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american radio
american studies
Author_Gerald Nachman
bob hope
broadcasting
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comedian
comic
cultural studies
dancing
entertainment
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fred allen
golden age of american radio
jack benny
jokes
listening
music
news radio
performance on the radio
popular culture
quiz show
radio
radio acting
radio criticism
radio history
radio noir
radio programming
radio shows
radio years
sitcom
soap opera
social sciences
vaudeville
vaudio
Product details
- ISBN 9780520223035
- Weight: 862g
- Dimensions: 156 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 23 Aug 2000
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
