Randal L Hall

Gebundenes Buch

Lum and Abner

Rural America and the Golden Age of Radio

Beschreibung

In the 1930s radio stations filled the airwaves with programs and musical performances about rural Americans-farmers and small-town residents struggling through the Great Depression. One of the most popular of these shows was Lum and Abner, the brainchild of Chester "Chet" Lauck and Norris "Tuffy" Goff, two young businessmen from Arkansas. Beginning in 1931 and lasting for more than two decades, the show revolved around the lives of ordinary people in the fictional community of Pine Ridge, based

Autor

Randal L. Hall is managing editor of the Journal of Southern History and adjunct associate professor of history at Rice University. He is the author or editor of several books, including Lum and Abner: Rural America and the Golden Age of Radio. He is also the coeditor of Seeing Jefferson Anew: In His Time and Ours and Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Kentucky
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9780813124698
• ISBN-10: 0813124697
• Artikelnr.: 22825468