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An overview of radio's impact on American culture from the 1920s through the 1940s, incorporating discussion of programmes and their relations to popular cultural understandings of race, ethnicity and gender in the United States of this era.

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Radiating culture; how far can you hear?; who we are, who we are not - the emergence of national narratives; eavesdropping on American - kitchen table conversations; the disembodied woman; under cover of daytime; the disciplined audience - radio by night; radio on the home front - fighting to be heard; conclusion: terms of preferment.

Radio Voices American Broadcasting 19221952

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/04/1997
      ISBN13: 9780816626212, 978-0816626212
      ISBN10: 0816626219

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An overview of radio's impact on American culture from the 1920s through the 1940s, incorporating discussion of programmes and their relations to popular cultural understandings of race, ethnicity and gender in the United States of this era.

      Table of Contents
      Radiating culture; how far can you hear?; who we are, who we are not - the emergence of national narratives; eavesdropping on American - kitchen table conversations; the disembodied woman; under cover of daytime; the disciplined audience - radio by night; radio on the home front - fighting to be heard; conclusion: terms of preferment.

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