{"product_id":"groove-tube-9780822326458","title":"Groove Tube","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCritics often claim that prime-time television seemed immune - or even willfully blind - to the landmark upheavals rocking western and American society during the 1960s. This book challenges the assumption that TV programming failed to consider or engage with the decade's youth-led societal changes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eGroove Tube\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first comprehensive account of the representation of the youth rebellions in television and of the sparky reception of those representations in the underground press. Bodroghkozy is the model of a new kind of media historian, one who has produced a book that will attract and hold the interest of Generation X undergrads and old hippies alike.”—Henry Jenkins, author of \u003ci\u003eFrom Barbie to Mortal Combat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Bodroghkozy is right-on when it comes to the details of \u003ci\u003eThe Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour,\u003c\/i\u003e CBS’s firing of us, and the surrounding controversy. Her observations are certainly worth taking the time to read.”—Tom Smothers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Turning on the Groove Tube \u003cbr\u003e 1. “Clarabell was the First Yippie”: The Television Generation from \u003ci\u003eHowdy Doody\u003c\/i\u003e to McLuhan \u003cbr\u003e 2. Plastic Hippies: The Counterculture on TV \u003cbr\u003e 3. “Every Revolutionary Needs a Color TV”: The Yippies, Media Manipulation, and Talk Shows \u003cbr\u003e 4. Smothering Dissent: \u003ci\u003eThe Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour\u003c\/i\u003e and the Crisis of Authority in Entertainment Television \u003cbr\u003e 5. Negotiating the Mod: How \u003ci\u003eThe Mod Squad\u003c\/i\u003e Played the Ideological Balancing Act in Prime-Time \u003cbr\u003e 6. Make It Relevant: How Youth Rebellion Captured Prime-Time in 1970-1971 \u003cbr\u003e 7. Conclusion: Legacies \u003cbr\u003e Appendix: A \u003ci\u003eGroove Tube\u003c\/i\u003e Selective Chronology of the Years 1966 to 1971 \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406026875223,"sku":"9780822326458","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822326458.jpg?v=1730494289","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/groove-tube-9780822326458","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}