Hello, Everybody!: The Dawn of American Radio
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (945 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 015101275X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Sensing the medium's potential, snake-oil salesmen and preachers took to the air, at once setting early standards for radio programming and making bedlam of the airwaves. Long before the internet, another young technology was transformed--with help from a colorful collection of eccentrics and visionaries--into a mass medium with the power to connect millions of people. When a charismatic bandleader named Rudy Vallee created the first on-air variety show and America elected its first true radio president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, radio had arrived.With clarity, humor, and an eye for outsized characters forgotten by polite history, Anthony Rudel tells the story of the boisterous years when radio took its place in the nation's living room and forever changed American politics, journalism, and entertainment.. When amateur enthusiasts began sending
Profiles reveal Rudy Vallee's vast appeal and important role in creating the radio variety show. Brinkley to open KFKB in 1923 Kansas. His chapter on the unholy marriage between radio and religion details the rise and fall of evangelist Sister Aimée Semple McPherson. From Publishers Weekly Novelist and classical music expert Rudel (Imagining Don Giovanni), who has an extensive background in radio broadcasting, offers a lively overview of the birth of radio with an emphasis on the entrepreneurs and evangelists, hucksters and opportunists who saw the medium's potential. He traces the transition from hobbyists to the radio craze of 1922 when Americans spent more than $60 million on home receivers that brought th
Radio's Emergence Profoundly Transforms Religion, Sports, and Politics 20's & 30's Mendopaul For anyone who loves American history this is a truly wonderful read! After the world was finally connected by the telegraph's dots and dashes, finally the human voice and man made sounds flew mysterially over the airwaves into people's homes and shops and truly changed lives; first came the snake-oil salesmen broadcasters and opportunistic hobbiest and entrepeneurs; then came crop. "Readable but superficial" according to Ralph Frattura. If you know nothing about the era, this readable, small book may be a good introduction. For many Americans, Aimee Semple McPherson and Father Coughlin are cultural references whose exact meaning is lost in the years.But in the end the second-hand superficiality of "Hello, Everybody!" makes it read like a good foundation for the book that might have been.The author acknowledges the. Newton Ooi said Great history of the early "Great history of the early 20th century" according to Newton Ooi. I often wish American schools would use regular books instead of textbooks for the teaching of history. The former are populated with thousands of great reads that cover just about any subject under the sun. This is one of them. This chronological study of the development of the radio business in America links together sports, politics, business, science, pop culture, mass entertai. 0th century. I often wish American schools would use regular books instead of textbooks for the teaching of history. The former are populated with thousands of great reads that cover just about any subject under the sun. This is one of them. This chronological study of the development of the radio business in America links together sports, politics, business, science, pop culture, mass entertai