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  • Phantasmic Radio

    The alienation of the self, the annihilation of the body, the fracturing, dispersal, and reconstruction of the disembodied voice: the themes of modernism, even of modern consciousness, occur as a matter of course in the phantasmic realm of radio. In this original work of cultural criticism, Allen S. Weiss explores the meaning of radio to the modern imagination. Weaving together cultural and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • On the Air

    The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio

    by John Dunning ...
    Now long out of print, John Dunning's Tune in Yesterday was the definitive one-volume reference on old-time radio broadcasting. Now, in On the Air, Dunning has completely rethought this classic work, reorganizing the material and doubling its coverage, to provide a richer and more informative account of radio's golden age. Here are some 1,500 radio shows presented in alphabetical order. The great ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Radio Daze

    Stories from the Front in Cleveland's FM Air Wars

    Cleveland has long enjoyed its reputation as one of the hottest music centers in the country and as the Rock 'n' Roll Capital of the World. Trends started or gained major recognition in Cleveland and were fueled by local radio stations and their disc jockeys, who connected with their audience and their lifestyles. IN fact, WMMS deejays helped the careers of many in the music industry take off, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rich and Famous in Thirty Seconds

    Inside Secrets to Achieving Financial Success in Television and Radio Commercials

    by Batt Johnson ...
    Rich and Famous in Thirty Seconds is written by a veteran of more than thirty years in show business and is filled with inside secrets and helpful tips, many not taught in university programs. It has in-depth interviews with successful actors, teachers, agents, and casting directors. Special chapters on marketing, getting jobs, and actors tax deductions provide stimulating insight. Additional ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Sky Train

    Stories from CBC's Fresh Air

    by Ward McBurney ...
    What do Northtrop Frye, French dairy cows, and Historic Fort York have in common? They’re all part of Ward McBurney’s lyric and personal stories from CBC Radio’s Fresh Air, which are now available for the first time in print.Broadcasting live on Saturday mornings, with Jeff Goodes as host, Ward has been performing his own work for over four years. Sky Train collects 35 of his creative non-fiction ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Go Where You Wanna Go

    The Oral History of The Mamas and The Papas

    Lavishly illustrated and cinematic in scope, Go Where You Wanna Go is told from the points of view of not only the group members, but also from those of their friends, musical collegues, business associates, critics, and fans. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Fireside Politics

    Radio and Political Culture in the United States, 1920–1940

    Series series Reconfiguring American Political History
    An “impressively researched and useful study” of the golden age of radio and its role in American democracy (Journal of American History).In Fireside Politics, Douglas B. Craig provides the first detailed and complete examination of radio’s changing role in American political culture between 1920 and 1940—the medium’s golden age, when it commanded huge national audiences without competition from ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Redeeming the Dial

    Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America

    Blending cultural, religious, and media history, Tona Hangen offers a richly detailed look into the world of religious radio. She uses recordings, sermons, fan mail, and other sources to tell the stories of the determined broadcasters and devoted listeners who, together, transformed American radio evangelism from an on-air novelty in the 1920s into a profitable and wide-reaching industry by the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • White Line Fever: The Autobiography

    The heaviest drinking, most oversexed speed freak in the music business tells his story: “An emblem of rock ’n’ roll endurance.” —The New York TimesIan Fraser Kilmister was born on Christmas Eve, 1945. Learning from an early age that chicks really do appreciate a guy with a guitar, and inspired by the music of Elvis and Buddy Holly, Lemmy quickly outgrew his local bands in Wales, choosing instead ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Rebels on the Air

    An Alternative History of Radio in America

    by Jesse Walker ...
    Explores the alternative radio that refuses to succumb to the big business that monopolizes the airwavesBoring DJs who never shut up, and who don't even pick their own records. The same hits, over and over. A constant stream of annoying commercials. How did radio get so dull?Not by accident, contends journalist and historian Jesse Walker. For decades, government and big business have colluded to ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • It's One O'Clock and Here Is Mary Margaret McBride

    A Radio Biography

    by Susan Ware ...
    One of the most beloved radio show hosts of the 1940s and 1950s, Mary Margaret McBride (1899—1976) regularly attracted between six and eight million listeners to her daily one o'clock broadcast. During her twenty years on the air she interviewed tens of thousands of people, from President Harry Truman and Frank Lloyd Wright to Rachel Carson and Zora Neale Hurston. This is her story.Five decades ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • NPR

    The Trials and Triumphs of National Public Radio

    The people who shaped America's public broadcasting system thought it should be "a civilized voice in a civilized community"—a clear alternative to commercial broadcasting. This book tells the story of how NPR has tried to embody this idea. Michael P. McCauley describes NPR's evolution from virtual obscurity in the early 1970s, when it was riddled with difficulties—political battles, unseasoned ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Rádio

    A mídia da emoção

    by Cyro César ...
    O autor compartilha com os leitores sua vasta experiência como profissional do rádio, em um livro que se destina a todos os que se interessem pelos diversos aspectos da produção radiofônica. Parte do pressuposto de que, por não trazer imagens explícitas, o rádio age diretamente sobre a imaginação do ouvinte e, dessa forma, tem o potencial de trazer à tona uma enorme carga de emoções. Com base ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of American Radio Soap Operas

    by Jim Cox ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    The period from 1925 to 1960 was the heyday of the American Radio Soap Opera. In addition to being part of popular culture, the soap opera had important commercial aspects as well that were not only related to their production, but also to the desperate need to sell products or perish. Both sides of this story are traced in this comprehensive compendium. The dictionary section, made up of more ... Read more

    $112.99 USD

  • Rick & Bubba's Expert Guide to God, Country, Family, and Anything Else We Can Think Of

    The New York Times–bestselling Southern manifesto from the “delightful team [that] blends down-home humor with rock-solid truth” (Max Lucado).Rick and Bubba are two of America’s zaniest syndicated radio hosts. Now, Rick and Bubba bring their own brand of southern humor and homespun wisdom to the book world. Rick & Bubba’s Expert Guide to God, Country, Family, and Anything Else We Can Think Of is a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • WNAX 570 Radio

    1922-2007

    Series series Images of America
    Life on the northern plains was lonely in the early 20th century. Farmers and ranchers went for weeks without hearing any voices other than those of their families. Then, in 1922, Al Madson, proprietor of a Yankton radio parts shop, made a radio transmitter. He formed a broadcasting company, and on November 25, 1922, WNAX broadcast its first program. People of the northern plains now had a daily ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rick & Bubba Code

    Decipher the wacky worldview of the famous radio DJs (and bestselling authors) as they take on relationships, family, physical fitness, religion, and life.Zany radio hosts Rick & Bubba rocketed onto the New York Times bestseller list with their first book, Rick & Bubba’s Expert Guide to God, Country, Family, and Anything Else We Can Think Of. Now Rick & Bubba are back, and this time the world ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain

    Travels and Stories from Ireland's Most Beloved Broadcaster

    Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh is best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms – sporting and non-sporting – go far beyond the fields of Gaelic games. In his new book, the follow-up to his bestselling memoir From Dún Síon to Croke Park, Micheál brings us along on his travels around the world, and to the villages, townlands and sporting fields of the four provinces of Ireland. He ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Old Time Radio

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    The term Old Time Radio refers to the relatively brief period from 1926, when the National Broadcasting Company first began network broadcasting, until approximately 1960, when television became the dominant communication medium in the United States. During this time, radio was as popular and ubiquitous as television is today. It was amazingly varied in the types of programming it offered; many ... Read more

    $122.99 USD

  • Bite Me!

    The Unofficial Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    Take a deep dive into the TV series that brought us all into the Buffyverse—including an episode guide, a trivia quiz, cast bios, and more!It’s been more than a decade since Buffy Summers first walked into the Sunnydale High library and came face-to-face with her Watcher, who told her she was the Chosen One who would save the world from vampires. In the seven seasons that Buffy the Vampire Slayer ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hello, Everybody!

    The Dawn of American Radio

    by Anthony Rudel ...
    “A lively overview” of this pre-internet mass-communication tool and “the entrepreneurs and evangelists, hucksters and opportunists” who flocked to it (Publishers Weekly).Long before the Internet, another young technology was transforming the way we connect with the world. At the dawn of the twentieth century, radio grew from an obscure hobby into a mass medium with the power to reach millions of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ainâ??t That a Knee-Slapper

    Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century

    by Tim Hollis ...
    There 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, author Tim Hollis traces the evolution of this classic American form ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Rick & Bubba for President

    The Two Sexiest Fat Men Alive Take on Washington

    Get double the presidential fun with the radio hosts guaranteed to bring carbs back to the White House. Take a stand for God, country, and apple pie!Still wondering who to vote for?Well, wonder no more. In Rick & Bubba for President you’ll discover that the two self-proclaimed “Sexiest Fat Men Alive” are exactly what Washington needs. From global warming (“We’d get involved, but it’s just been so ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Voice of Newfoundland

    A Social History of the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland,1939-1949

    by Jeff Webb ...
    Similar to the CBC and BBC, the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland was a public broadcaster that was at the centre of a cultural and political change from 1939 to 1949, during which Newfoundland faced wartime challenges and engaged in a constitutional debate about whether to become integrated into Canada. The Voice of Newfoundland studies these changes by taking a close look at the ... Read more

    $34.99 USD