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2nd Edition book with hundreds of illustrations, available in Premium Color. Non-fiction for those interested in the history of American entertainment media before television and streaming mp3s via the internet. In the live 'social medium' before FaceBook and podcasts. If you've ever been interviewed, DJ'd, or engineered on radio, including college radio, or your local NPR affiliate. Local radio is where actor John Lithgow, Dick Cavett, Dolly Parton, and "Buffalo Bob" Smith got their start. Much has been written about the national celebrities and networks, but what about where they originated - from local stations? American Local Radio by an award-winning documentary filmmaker. About his and many others' experiences as "250 Watt" broadcasters - on-mic and un-credited behind the scenes - during The Golden Age of Radio. Pioneers in what was once the world's newest, hottest medium. That once was a federally-protected bastion of "localism." More than a niche book for those aged over 65: the latest census putting that at 56 million. Add many more younger who grew up while radios still outnumbered TVs. Those interested in the origins of mass media delivered instantaneously ("live"). Collectors who clamor for vintage vacuum broadcast equipment. With early TV in grainy black & white, the colorful bold art deco of Radio. The grayer motivations of practitioners. The "theater of the imagination" and "suspension of disbelief" invented by Radio, today applicable to any mass communications medium. Most of those interviewed say radio of its so-called Golden Age is long dead. That radio today is in a slow race to the bottom. This book would see to it that the cultural contributions of The Golden Age of Local Radio are remembered.
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Miller, Robin
- ISBN: 9798218504243
- Condition: New
- Dimensions: 9.00 x 0.37
- Number Of Pages: 174
- Publication Year: 2024
Language:
English