Out of the Dark - A History of Radio and Rural America

Informationen zum Autor Steve Craig is the coauthor of Consuming Environments: Television and Commercial Culture and editor of Men, Masculinity, and the Media . Klappentext "Out of the Dark" is a study of radio's impact on rural America in the three decades between its inception and the arrival of television. Zusammenfassung A study of radio's impact on rural America in the three decades between its inception and the arrival of television. It documents the social changes radio helped bring about! such as the effects of advertising and entertainment in creating a more uniform set of values across the nation and! consequently! a stronger national identity.

Product details

• Authors: Steve Craig
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.2009
• EAN: 9780817316631
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1663-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous