American Babel : Rogue Radio Broadcasters of the Jazz Age /
When American radio broadcasting began in the early 1920s there was a consensus among middle-class opinion makers that the airwaves must never be used for advertising. Even the national advertising industry agreed that the miraculous new medium was destined for higher cultural purposes. And yet, wit...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2011]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Prelude
- Chapter 1 The Education of Frank Bannister
- Chapter 2 Serving the Masses, Not the Classes It
- Chapter 3 Brows High and Fevered
- Chapter 4 ''Exit the Jonas Hayseed of 1880''
- Chapter 5 That Doggone Radio Man
- Chapter 6 Wilbur Can Beat the Devil
- Chapter 7 The Dawn of the Golden Age
- Notes
- Index