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Lum and Abner : rural America and the golden age of radio /

In the 1930s radio stations filled the airwaves with programs about rural Americans struggling through the Great Depression. One of the most popular of these shows was Lum and Abner, the brainchild of two young businessmen from Arkansas. Chester ""Chet"" Lauck and Norris "&q...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hall, Randal L., 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2007.
Colección:New directions in southern history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In the 1930s radio stations filled the airwaves with programs about rural Americans struggling through the Great Depression. One of the most popular of these shows was Lum and Abner, the brainchild of two young businessmen from Arkansas. Chester ""Chet"" Lauck and Norris ""Tuffy"" Goff based Pine Ridge, the community they created on the air, on the hamlet of Waters, Arkansas. The title characters, who are farmers, local officials, and keepers of the Jot 'Em Down Store, manage to entangle themselves in a variety of hilarious dilemmas. In Lum and Abner: Rural America and the golden Age of Radio.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 255 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780813172781
0813172780
9780813156453
0813156459