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The Listener's Voice : Early Radio and the American Public /

Overview: During the Jazz Age and Great Depression, radio broadcasters did not conjure their listening public with a throw of a switch; the public had a hand in its own making. The Listener's Voice describes how a diverse array of Americans-boxing fans, radio amateurs, down-and-out laborers, sm...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Razlogova, Elena, 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Moral economy of American broadcasting
  • 1: At ringside
  • 2: Jumping the waves
  • 3: Voice of the listener
  • 4: Listeners write the scripts
  • 5: Measuring culture
  • 6: Gang busters
  • 7: Vox jox
  • Epilogue
  • List of abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.