American Babel : rogue radio broadcasters of the jazz age /

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A colorful social and cultural history of the often-overlooked independent radio stations of the 1920s, which played an integral role in shaping the American broadcast system through innovative commercial practices, all the while incurring the wrath of the large corporate stations trying to fulfill...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Doerksen, Clifford John, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2005.
Series:EBL-Schweitzer
Subjects:
Radio broadcasting > United States > History.
Radio broadcasters > United States > Biography.
Radio > États-Unis > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > 20th century.
Radio broadcasters
Radio broadcasting
United States
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The education of Frank Bannister
  • Serving the masses, not the classes
  • Brows high and fevered
  • "Exit the Jonas Hayseed of 1880"
  • That doggone radio man
  • Wilbur can beat the devil
  • The dawn of the golden age.

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