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Radio's America :

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0226471918

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0226471934

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1282239848

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9780226471914

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9780226471938

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9786612239847

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0226471918

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0226471926

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9780226471914

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9780226471921

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b712107

Title Proper

Radio's America :

General Material Designation

[Book]

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the Great Depression and the rise of modern mass culture /

First Statement of Responsibility

Bruce Lenthall.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Chicago :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Chicago Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2007.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (x, 261 pages)

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-253) and index.

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Introduction: "The story of the century" -- 1. Radio's challenges: public intellectuals and the problem of mass culture. William Orton and the mass-consumption critique ; James Rorty and the mass-production critique ; African American intellectuals and the mass-production critique in action ; Related solutions ; Defenders of the faith -- 2. Radio's listeners: personalizing mass culture. The mass audience listens ; Consumer bargaining ; "When you can't find a friend, you've still got the radio" -- 3. Radio's democracy: the politics of the fireside. Roosevelt on the radio ; Radio democracy: the politics of intimacy ; Radio democracy: the politics of information ; Once and future ideals? -- 4. Radio's champions: strange gods? Radio stars ; Voices of the people ; Power ... corrupts? ; Limited amplitude -- 5. Radio's students: media studies and the possibilities of mass communication. Paul Lazarsfeld and social pragmatism's hope ; Herman Hettinger and commercial pragmatism's faith ; Theodor Adorno's critical theory: a considerably less charitable view -- 6. Radio's writers: a public voice in the modern world. Art of the air ; Public speech, public art, and mass communication ; Modernism on the air ; Muffled voices.

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Orson Welles's greatest breakthrough into the popular consciousness occurred in 1938, three years before Citizen Kane, when his War of the Worlds radio broadcast succeeded so spectacularly that terrified listeners believed they were hearing a genuine report of an alien invasion-a landmark in the history of radio's powerful relationship with its audience. In Radio's America, Bruce Lenthall documents the enormous impact radio had on the lives of Depression-era Americans and charts the formative years of our modern mass culture. Many Americans became alienated from their government and economy in.

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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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00027142

Title

Radio's America.

Radio broadcasting-- Social aspects-- United States.

Radio broadcasting-- United States-- History.

Politieke aspecten.

Populaire cultuur.

Radio broadcasting-- Social aspects.

Radio broadcasting.

Radio.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Media Studies.

Sociale aspecten.

United States.

Verenigde Staten.

7

7

SOC-- 052000

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Lenthall, Bruce.

Date of Transaction

20201208024209.0

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