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Original radio broadcasts from the Golden Age of Yiddish radio (1930-1955) provide a look into Jewish immigrant culture during the first half of the 20th century, with searing dramas, swinging music, news programs, advice and game shows, man-on-the-street interviews, commericals, and shtick. Translations performed by a cast including Carl Reiner, Eli Wallach, and many others.
By David Isay (producer) and Henry Sapoznik (producer)

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9781565117136 | Abridged edition (Highbridge Co, June 28, 2002), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Original radio broacasts from the Golden Age of Yiddish radio (1930-1955) provide a look into Jewish immigrant culture during the first half of the twentieth century includes dramas, music, news programs, advice and game shows, man-on-the-street interviews, commercials, and shtick.

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Product Description: At the beginning of this spirited and engaging cultural history, Douglas (communication studies, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor) refers to Erik Barnouw's three-volume History of Broadcasting in the United States (published between 1966 and 1970); she covers much of the same ground only quicker (one volume) and points out that each chapter could have be...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780756751760, titled "Listening in: Radio and the American Imagination, from Amos 'N' Andy and Edward R. Murrow to Wolfman Jack and Howard Stern" | Diane Pub Co, November 1, 2001, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: At the beginning of this spirited and engaging cultural history, Douglas (communication studies, U.
9780812925463, titled "Listening in: Radio and the American Imagination, from Amos 'N' Andy and Edward R. Murrow to Wolfman Jack and Howard Stern" | 1st edition (Times Books, April 1, 1999), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A cultural history of American radio and its influence on American life, institutions, and mores discusses the different trends in programming throughout the decades

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9780812933000, titled "Listening in: Radio and the American Imagination, from Amos 'N' Andy and Edward R. Murrow to Wolfman Jack and Howard Stern" | Times Books, April 1, 2000, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A cultural history of American radio and its influence on American life, institutions, and mores discusses the different trends in programming throughout the decades.

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Product Description: This history concentrates on the years between 1920 and 1930 in the United States when radio was rapidly growing and changing. It covers all important areas in the development of the radio industry, from business and finance to the rise of networks. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780899502854 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, August 1, 1987, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This history concentrates on the years between 1920 and 1930 in the United States when radio was rapidly growing and changing.

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9780786411993 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, November 1, 2001, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This history concentrates on the years between 1920 and 1930 in the United States when radio was rapidly growing and changing.

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Product Description: Ray Barfield has done something quite new in media studies. Rather than trace the history of radio through the usual route, he has sought out a body of oral history from those who grew up with and listened to radio. He has not only collated the responses of his informants but placed their comments in a larger cultural and historical context and thus provided a kind of history from the ground up...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780275954925 | Praeger Pub Text, July 30, 1996, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Ray Barfield has done something quite new in media studies.

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Product Description: Intended for both the casual listener and the serious hobbyist or researcher, this one-volume handbook includes a descriptive log of more than 2,000 different programs, with casts, announcers, network, length of program, duration of appearance, availability, and, where appropriate, story lines; categorized logs of more than 4,500 programs, organized by type of program; separate characters covering each type of program, with historical information and guidelines for researching and understanding each category of old-time radio programming; descriptions of the better-known premiums offered during radio's Golden Age; a history of the networks; a chapter on resources available for those interested in acquiring old-time programs, reference material, and/or memorabilia; and indexes of over 8,000 performers and program titles...read more

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9780810825901 | Scarecrow Pr, August 1, 1993, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: Intended for both the casual listener and the serious hobbyist or researcher, this one-volume handbook includes a descriptive log of more than 2,000 different programs, with casts, announcers, network, length of program, duration of appearance, availability, and, where appropriate, story lines; categorized logs of more than 4,500 programs, organized by type of program; separate characters covering each type of program, with historical information and guidelines for researching and understanding each category of old-time radio programming; descriptions of the better-known premiums offered during radio's Golden Age; a history of the networks; a chapter on resources available for those interested in acquiring old-time programs, reference material, and/or memorabilia; and indexes of over 8,000 performers and program titles.

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Offers an insider's view of the outrageous, rebellious, and controversial free-form FM radio era, from its counter-culture rise in the 1960s to its 1980s defeat by the 'format machine'

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9780312059521 | St Martins Pr, May 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Offers an insider's view of the outrageous, rebellious, and controversial free-form FM radio era, from its counter-culture rise in the 1960s to its 1980s defeat by the 'format machine'

Paperback:

9780312077860 | Reprint edition (Griffin, June 1, 1992), cover price $22.99

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Product Description: Several decades after his death and more than forty years since his radio program left the air, Fred Allen's reputation as a respected humorist remains intact. This is a study of the development of the radio industry, a discussion of American humor, and the story of how one relates to the other...read more

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9780877227137 | Temple Univ Pr, August 22, 1990, cover price $66.50 | About this edition: A notable example of radio at its best.

Paperback:

9780877228103 | Temple Univ Pr, October 10, 1991, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Several decades after his death and more than forty years since his radio program left the air, Fred Allen's reputation as a respected humorist remains intact.

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