Author: Henry T. SampsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans in radio broadcasting
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Swingin' on the Ether Waves
Author: Henry T. SampsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans in radio broadcasting
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy
Author: Kathryn Fuller-SeeleyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520295056
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
"Jack Benny became one of the most influential entertainers of the 20th century--by being the top radio comedian, when the comics ruled radio, and radio was the most powerful and pervasive mass medium in the US. In 23 years of weekly radio broadcasts, by aiming all the insults at himself, Benny created Jack, the self-deprecating "Fall Guy" character. He indelibly shaped American humor as a space to enjoy the equal opportunities of easy camaraderie with his cast mates, and equal ego deflation. Benny was the master of comic timing, knowing just when to use silence to create suspense or to have a character leap into the dialogue to puncture Jack's pretentions. Jack Benny was also a canny entrepreneur, becoming one of the pioneering "showrunners" combining producer, writer and performer into one job. His modern style of radio humor eschewed stale jokes in favor informal repartee with comic hecklers like his valet Rochester (played by Eddie Anderson) and Mary Livingstone his offstage wife. These quirky characters bouncing off each other in humorous situations created the situation comedy. In this career study, we learn how Jack Benny found ingenious ways to sell his sponsors' products in comic commercials beloved by listeners, and how he dealt with the challenges of race relations, rigid gender ideals and an insurgent new media industry (TV). Jack Benny created classic comedy for a rapidly changing American culture, providing laughter that buoyed radio listeners from 1932's depths of the Great Depression, through World War II to the mid-1950s"--Provided by publisher.
The Concise Encyclopedia of American Radio
Author: Christopher H. SterlingPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135176841
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 965
Book Description
The Concise Encyclopedia of American Radio is an essential single-volume reference guide to this vital and evolving medium. Comprised of more than 300 entries spanning the invention of radio to the Internet, this refernce work addresses personalities, music genres, regulations, technology, programming and stations, the "golden age" of radio and other topics relating to radio broadcasting throughout its history. The entries are updated throughout and the volume includes nine new entries on topics ranging from podcasting to the decline of radio.
Butterfly McQueen Remembered
Author: Stephen BournePublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810860186
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
From her memorable role in Gone With the Wind to her last big screen appearance opposite Harrison Ford in The Mosquito Coast, the details of McQueen's life are captured in this book.
The Blackface Minstrel Show in Mass Media
Author: Tim BrooksPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476676763
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
The minstrel show occupies a complex and controversial space in the history of American popular culture. Today considered a shameful relic of America's racist past, it nonetheless offered many black performers of the 19th and early 20th centuries their only opportunity to succeed in a white-dominated entertainment world, where white performers in blackface had by the 1830s established minstrelsy as an enduringly popular national art form. This book traces the often overlooked history of the "modern" minstrel show through the advent of 20th century mass media--when stars like Al Jolson, Bing Crosby and Mickey Rooney continued a long tradition of affecting black music, dance and theatrical styles for mainly white audiences--to its abrupt end in the 1950s. A companion two-CD reissue of recordings discussed in the book is available from Archeophone Records at www.archeophone.com.
Half Hours With Modern Scientists
Author: Thomas Henry HuxleyPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The tendency is universal among the scientific men of all nations, to present the principles of science in such brief summaries or statements as may bring them within the reach of common readers.The tendency indicates that there is a large body of readers who are so far instructed in the elements of science as to be able to understand these summaries. (sourced from text) Half Hours with Modern Scientists is a collection of lectures and essays from great minds of science.
Fragments of Science
Author: John TyndallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Fragments of Science: a Series of Detached Essays, Addresses and Reviews
Author: John TyndallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Illustrations of the Methods of Reasoning
Author: Daniel Sommer RobinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logic
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Author: John Tyndall