History & Criticism

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781548358952Author Robert KrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Music in Range explores the history of Canadian campus radio, highlighting the factors that have shaped its close relationship with local music and culture. The book traces how campus radio practitioners have expanded stations from campus borders to...

From Archibald MacLeish to David Sedaris, radio storytelling has long borrowed from the world of literature, yet the narrative radio work of well-known writers and others is a story that has not been told before. And when the literary aspects of specific...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798699041442Author Laurie York ErskineFormat PaperbackPage Count 542Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781547272570Author Ron GerberFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218107772Author ShreveFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Hard Knocks PublishingPublisher Hard Knocks PublishingWeight(grams) 213g

The story of British radio begins long before the birth of the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) in 1922. This book aims to tell this story through its component parts: the makers, the programs, and the policies that together shaped the development of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988058030Author Susan CrossmanFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Manor House Publishing IncPublisher Manor House Publishing Inc

As the only independently Black-owned radio station in South Central Los Angeles, KJLH-FM was thrust into the national and international media spotlight in the aftermath of the Rodney King trial. During the ensuing riots, KJLH introduced the world to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999486853Author David ShanklinFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint David ShanklinPublisher David ShanklinWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984066725Author Martin Grams JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

This book is a real find—for those who enjoy radio nostalgia but more importantly for scholars of broadcasting. From 1947 to 1950 while listening to such voices as Bob Hope, Red Skelton, Milton Berle, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, and Jimmy Durante, and shows...

Born in Ujpest, Hungary, in 1919, George Jellinek began his musical career playing violin with gypsies in the family's garden restaurant. He spent his adolescence doing much the same, honing his talent and enriching his own musical education with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781519298881Author Cortney HardingFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

When radio broadcasting began in the early 1920s, the radio was a magic box aglow with the future, drawing humanity into a new age. Some thought it would dissolve the distance between time and place, others that human minds would become transparent,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467103503Author Gary HeltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295g

Who were the 35 actors that performed with stars Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in radio's ""The Abbott and Costello Show""? Do scripts survive for the old Burns and Allen shows or the children's crime fighter series ""The Green Hornet""? Serious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480168398Author Brandy Anderson IIFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

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This work examines what could be called the final decade of AM network radio and the many factors that contributed to its decline. The first chapter is an overview of AM radio in the 1950s. The second chapter covers 1950 through 1953, when radio was...

In the days before television, radio was the constant voice in American life. When radio spoke, America listened--especially to the men and women who spoke directly to their unseen audience. Sometimes formal, sometimes as familiar as the friend next...

A sweep of radio history from its birth as Marconi's ""wireless telegraph"" through its current status under deregulation, this book analyzes the changing medium's social, political, and cultural impact. It casts new light on many...

This history concentrates on the years between 1920 and 1930 in the United States when radio was rapidly growing and changing. It covers all important areas in the development of the radio industry, from business and finance to the rise of networks.Book...

The term Old Time Radio refers to the relatively brief period from 1926, when the National Broadcasting Company first began network broadcasting, until approximately 1960, when television became the dominant communication medium in the United States...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476686417Author Wayne SoiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint McFarland & CompanyPublisher McFarland & CompanyWeight(grams) 152g

The discovery and development of shortwave technology during the 1920s and 1930s permitted radio stations worldwide to transmit their programs over long distances for the first time, and the thrill of hearing faraway broadcasts produced a dedicated...

I Hid It under the Sheets captures a bygone era - the late 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s - through the reminiscences of award-winning ""New York Times"" reporter Gerald Eskenazi. This first-person recollection shows radio's broad...

This history of Argentina's pioneering efforts in broadcasting shows how the country set the pace for almost all radio innovations in the region. The country's influence in radio was so great that by 1940 Argentina had the second largest commercial radio...

The Radio Act of August 13, 1912, provided for the licensing of radio operators and transmitting stations for nearly 15 years until Congress passed the Radio Act of 1927. From 1921 to 1927, there were continual revisions and developments and these still...

Shortwave broadcasting originated in the 1920s, when stations used the new technology to increase their range in order to serve foreign audiences and reach parts of their own country not easily otherwise covered. The early days of shortwave radio were...

Examines the role of the church in the moral development of radio. ""Radio, Morality, and Culture: Britain, Canada, and the United States, 1919-1945"" examines the moral controversies surrounding radio's development during its...

A unique and definitive study of freedom of expression rights in electronic media from the 1920s through the mid-1930s, Louise M. Benjamin's Freedom of the Air and the Public Interest: First Amendment Rights in Broadcasting to 1935 examines the evolution...

For some eighty years the airwaves of Texas have buzzed. Richard Schroeder traces the first fifty years of the development of broadcasting in the state from its inception through the formation of commercial stations, to the regulation of the airwaves by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998835822Author Milton Matthew HorowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Cleveland Radio PlayersPublisher Cleveland Radio PlayersWeight(grams) 118g

Blending cultural, religious and media history, Tona Hangen offers a detailed look into the world of religious radio. She uses recordings, sermons, fan mail and other sources to tell the stories of the determined broadcasters and devoted listeners who,...

This book covers personalities, policies, and programming.When it first appeared in the 1930s, FM radio was a technological marvel, providing better sound and nearly eliminating the static that plagued AM stations. It took another forty years, however,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595213955Author Dennis HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595281770Author Dennis HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 463g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692389492Author Deanna Lynn DionneFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Cleveland Radio PlayersPublisher Cleveland Radio PlayersWeight(grams) 136g