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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Barfield, Ray E. Listening to radio, 1920-1950. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1996 (OCoLC)604760602 Online version: Barfield, Ray E. Listening to radio, 1920-1950. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1996 (OCoLC)606485016 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ray E Barfield |
| ISBN: | 0275954927 9780275954925 |
| OCLC Number: | 33969606 |
| Description: | xvi, 218 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : "No radio" and no "Radio" -- [Part] I : How They Listened -- Listening in the 1920s -- Listening in the 1930s -- Listening in (and after) the 1940s -- Car and portable radios -- Radio families -- [Part] II : What they heard -- Events and commentators -- Sportscasts -- Cultural, educational, and religious programs -- Morning to mid-afternoon programs -- Children's adventure programs -- Other children's programs -- Comedy programs -- Drama anthologies -- Crime and terror programs -- Music programs -- Audience participation, amateur talent, and related programs -- Radio travels : memory, time, and place -- Staying tuned : contemporary sources for old-time radio. |
| Responsibility: | Ray Barfield ; foreword by M. Thomas Inge. |
Abstract:
This fresh and engaging account of early radio's contributions to U.S. social and cultural life brings together varied perspectives of listeners who recall the programs that delighted and enchanted them. Radio, the first electronic medium to enter the home, is examined as a chief purveyor of family entertainment and as a bridge across regional differences. Barfield draws from over 150 accounts, providing a forum and a context for listeners of early radio to share their memories - from their first impressions of "that magical box" to favorite shows. Opening chapters trace the changing perceptions of radio as a "guest" or an "invader" in U.S. homes during the exuberant 1920s, the cash-scarce 1930s, and the rapidly changing World War II and post-war years. Later chapters offer listener responses to every major program type, including news reporting and commentary, sportscasts, drama, comedy series, crime and terror shows, educational and cultural programs, children's adventure series, soap operas, audience participation shows, and musical presentations [Publisher description]
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