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Article: Radio's America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture.(Book review)
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- June 22, 2009
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Radio's America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture. By Bruce Lenthall. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. x, 288. $20.00.)
In the 1930s, Americans listened to radio four to five hours a day. What did radio mean to them? A lot, apparently. When the vaudeville comedian Eddie Cantor divulged his shirt and sock sizes on the air, fifteen thousand fans sent birthday gifts; when Amos and Andy complained they could not afford a typewriter, NBC received 1,880 machines from listeners wanting to help their radio friends. Thousands of letters were mailed every week to radio's musicians, announcers, domestic advisors, and soap opera ...
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