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"Just Mary"
Dundurn 2006; US$ 35.00An examination of the life of Mary Grannan, whose radio shows, including Just Mary and Maggie Muggins , shaped the legacy of children?s programming on CBC. more...
The "Light Crust Doughboys" are on the Air
University of North Texas Press 2002; US$ 23.96This is the story of the Light Crust Doughboys phenomenon, from their debut broadcast in 1930 to their contemporary live performances. more...
The A to Z of American Radio Soap Operas
Scarecrow Press 2009; US$ 33.99The dictionary section, made up of more than 500 cross-referenced entries, provides brief vignettes of the more popular and also less well-known 'soaps,' among them Back Stage Wife, Our Gal Sunday, Pepper Young's Family and The Guiding Light. Other entries evoke those who brought these programs to life: the actors, announcers, scriptwriters, networks,... more...
The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television
Scarecrow Press 2009; US$ 33.99The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television provides essential facts and information concerning the Australian radio and television industry. This is accomplished through the use of a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on directors, producers, writers, actors, television and radio... more...
The A to Z of British Radio
Scarecrow Press 2009; US$ 33.99The A to Z of British Radio relates the history of this medium through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on the BBC and other companies, many of the specific stations, the more memorable programs and those who wrote for or appeared on them, and the administrative and technical... more...
The A to Z of Old Time Radio
Scarecrow Press 2010; US$ 33.99The A to Z of Old Time Radio provides essential facts and information on the Golden Age of Radio. This is accomplished through the use of a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the radio networks, programs, directors, producers, writers, actors, radio series, and radio stations.... more...
Accountability and the Public Interest in Broadcasting
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 95.00Against a backdrop of great change in technology and the economics of broadcasting and new media, this timely survey of contemporary attitudes to accountability and the public interest in broadcasting is based on over fifty interviews conducted in four democracies: India, Australia, the UK and the US. more...
Active Radio
University of Minnesota Press 1999; US$ 70.50In April 1949, KPFA in Berkeley, California, went on the air. From the beginning, the station broadcast an utterly new combination of political commentary and cultural discussion, dedicated to creative expression and dissent. In this fascinating account, Jeff Land tells the heroic story of the Pacifica radio network and the practical model it pioneered... more...
Aint That a Knee-Slapper
University Press of Mississippi 2008; US$ 25.00There was a time when rural comedians drew most of their humor from tales of farmers' daughters, hogs, hens, and hill country high jinks. Lum and Abner and Ma and Pa Kettle might not have toured happily under the "Redneck" marquee, but they were its precursors. In Ain't That a Knee-Slapper: Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century ,... more...
An Air War with Cuba
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 45.00Since 1985, Radio Marti, a Radio Free Europe-type station, has broadcast American news and propaganda in Cuba. Its sister station, TV Marti, debuted in 1990. A respected operation at the start, Radio and TV Marti fell under the influence of the Cuban American National Foundation--a group of hard-line Cuban exiles--who intensified the anti-Castro rhetoric... more...









