History & Criticism Books


Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey Best Price: $8.37 This book is yet another goldmine of anecdotes for dance fans. It will also be educational for...	The BBC Talks of E. M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition Best Price: $47.96 These seventy annotated broadcasts present frequent BBC contributor Forster not only as a...	Adventures in Odyssey: The Official Guide: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Stories, Actors, and Characters (Adventures in Odyssey) Best Price: $13.59 Adventures in the fictional small town of Odyssey have entertained families around the world for...	Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation Best Price: $16.67 Marc Fisher's "Something In The Air" should be required reading for anyone entering...	Clear Vision: The Story of Clear Channel Communications Best Price: $6.50 Don't expect an objective look at Clear Channel as a company, nor it's officer. Nary an...



On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio Best Price: $46.24 "On The Air" I've been after this one for some years but couldn't make the price...	The Buzzard: Inside the Glory Days of Wmms and Cleveland Rock Radio--a Memoir Best Price: $13.99 It was a special time in Cleveland, Ohio, when stations on something called FM radio became...	Voices of Our Time: Five Decades of Studs Terkel Interviews Best Price: $21.24 Having grown up in Chicago and spent a chunk of my adult life there as well, perhaps the thing I...	Border Radio: Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves Best Price: $14.50 Take a trip back to radio's beginning. I've wanted this book for a long time and if you are like...	Treadmill to Oblivion: My Days in Radio Best Price: $12.84 i rarely write reviews unless i'm ticked off. i own a used copy of the original hardcover,...



The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance (Music in American Life) Best Price: $15.58 The National Barn Dance was the nation's most popular country music radio show during the 1930s...	Follow the Music: The Life and High Times of Elektra Records in the Great Years of American Pop Culture Best Price: $11.71 I bought this book for the CD. Most of the Elektra catalog is out of print and was never...	The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio Best Price: $0.98 More like an encyclodia I could not really follow it inspite of my long term interest in radio.	The Wendy Williams Experience Best Price: $0.83 I've been a huge fan of Wendy's for at least 12 or 13 years, since her Hot 97 days. I used to...	The Philosophy of Neo-Noir (The Philosophy of Popular Culture) Best Price: $28.60 As the title suggests, this book covers the philosophical background behind films defined as...

Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City (Music in American Life) Best Price: $18.78 This book is a fascinating, engaging read. It feels more like a great story than a history...	The Broadcast Century and Beyond, Fourth Edition: A Biography of American Broadcasting Best Price: $34.98 I got this book for a Media Arts college class. It starts at the beginning of radio all the way...	Listening in: Radio and American Imagination Best Price: $6.55 Radio has become such a background part of our lives, we forget just how astounding an impact it...	The CBS Radio Mystery Theater: An Episode Guide and Handbook to Nine Years of Broadcasting, 1974-1982 Best Price: $40.50 This is a good book for fans of the radio series, as it lists all the episodes and brief...	The Peel Sessions: A Story of Teenage Dreams and One Man's Love of New Music Best Price: $18.54 Between 1967 and 2004 John Peel picked more than 2,000 bands to come and record more than 4,000...

Hello, Everybody!: The Dawn of American Radio Best Price: $17.16 Long before the internet, another young technology was transformed--with help from a colorful...	Burning Up the Air: Jerry Williams, Talk Radio, and the Life in Between Best Price: $18.19 For anyone that has ever heard Jerry Williams on the air and wondered what he was like off the...	A Shadow of Red: Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television Best Price: $4.98 None of us can learn all of history in detail, but we also need to learn something more about it...	John Peel: Margrave of the Marshes Best Price: $12.15 Having been one of the girls who was mesmerized by John Ravenscroft when I was 14 and a...	My Name's Friday : The Unauthorized but True Story of Dragnet and the Films of Jack Webb Best Price: $14.25 My Name's Friday is an enjoyable romp through the world of Jack Webb. From his days portraying...

A History of Broadcasting in the United States Best Price: $18.59 This powerful history of broadcasting in the United States goes beyond traditional accounts to...	200 Meters & Down: The Story of Amateur Radio Best Price: $10.04 Radio and television broadcasters of the 21st century owe their heritage to those radio amateurs...	Pirate Radio Stations: Tuning in to Underground Broadcasts in the Air and Online Best Price: $12.88 I bought this book for my 20-year-old grandson to go with the Sony broadband radio I gave him...	AIRWAVES OF NEW YORK: Illustrated Histories of 156 Am Stations in the Metropolitan Area, 1921-1996 Best Price: $35.00 There are probably a dozen or so books that I've read and re-read cover to cover in one siting....	And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey Best Price: $7.47 This is a book of interviews and quotes from an eclectic DJ. While all the A list entertainers...

Ezra Pound's Radio Operas: The BBC Experiments, 1931?1933 Best Price: $10.95 2002 Ezra Pound Society Prize presented by the Ezra Pound Society. Ezra Pound, best known...	The Rise of Radio, from Marconi through the Golden Age Best Price: $34.99 This book is thoroughly researched and footnoted, with an extensive bibliography and scholarly...	I See Black People: The Rise and Fall of African American-Owned Television and Radio Best Price: $11.08 Why are so few radio and television stations currently owned by African Americans? The...	The Great American Broadcast Best Price: $3.84 i was surprised that Leonard Maltin was so "nice" in this book. i'm used to him...	The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television Best Price: $18.83 Extremely well written and virtually 100% accurate. David Weinstein is to be lauded for his well...

A-Z of Record Labels Best Price: $3.88 If you're a history fan and want to find out all about the background of a certain record label...	Raised on Radio Best Price: $21.76 I refer to Jerry's book many times in my weekly column, Radio Somewhere, in the Asbury Park...	Guerrilla Radio: Rock 'N' Roll Radio and Serbia's Underground Resistance (Nation Books) Best Price: $3.35 If I could give half stars, this would get 3.5/5. I expected this book to be a chronicling...	It Was All Just Rock 'n' Roll I was excited to read this. I grew up in the Northwest but on the wrong side of the mountains...	Wireless Radio: A History Best Price: $32.20 In 1873 Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell first advanced the idea that there might be...

Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde Best Price: $22.00 Wireless Imagination addresses perhaps the most conspicuous silence in contemporary theory and...	Sounds of Change: A History of FM Broadcasting in America Best Price: $20.00 When it first appeared in the 1930s, FM radio was a technological marvel, providing better sound...	The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism Best Price: $19.02 Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson's THE MURROW BOYS is very well researched and sourced. The...	Radio: The Life Story of a Technology (Greenwood Technographies) Best Price: $46.95 This book chronicles the history of radio as technology and as media. Radio grew from a clumsy,...	Birmingham Broadcasting (AL) (Images of America) Best Price: $19.99 Birmingham, Alabama, has enjoyed a long and distinguished broadcasting history. The city?s first...

Ain't That a Knee-Slapper: Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century Best Price: $11.50 There was a time when rural comedians drew most of their humor from tales of farmers' daughters,...	Voice of America Best Price: $35.00 I was looking for serious information about this major actor in the history of the Cold War....	Brecht on Film and Radio Best Price: $21.39 From Weimar Germany to Hollywood to East Berlin, Brecht on Film& Radio gathers together a...	Superman on Film, Television, Radio and Broadway Best Price: $49.95 "Superman on Film, Television, Radio and Broadway" is the finest book on the...	The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting: Creating Alternative Media Best Price: $2.35 First there were...then they were...now they is...The numbers tell the story of the decline and...

The Laugh Crafters: Comedy Writing in Radio and Tv's Golden Age Anyone with an interest in classic comedy writing will find this book to be an absolute treasure...	American Cinema of the 1940s: Themes And Variations (Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema) Best Price: $22.90	Ethnographic Film Best Price: $18.00 From reviews of the first edition: " Ethnographic Film can rightly be considered a...	I Hid It Under the Sheets: Growing Up With Radio (Sports and American Culture) Best Price: $18.95 Jerry Eskenazi, sports writer for the New York Times, among other papers, relates what it was...	The Goon Show Companion: A History and Goonography Roger Wilmut is a great chronicler of 20th Century British comedy. All his books are worth...

The Man Born to Be King Best Price: $11.66 This is by far the best dramatization of the life of Christ I have ever read. By far. It moved...	Monitor (Take 2): The revised, expanded inside story of network radio's greatest program Best Price: $13.72 Dennis Hart's book is a wonderful look at an important and unfairly forgotten broadcasting...

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