Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Passman, Arnold

Titel

The deejays : the first 50 years

Auflage

Reprint of the original edition published in 1971 by the Macmillan Company

Ort / Verlag

Berkeley, California : Regent Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2021]

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• "A reprint of the original 1960s edition!" - Umschlag
• "An electronic extension of the countless traveling salesmen and medicine men who crisscrossed America during its expansion, the 'faceless' deejay... the pop propagandist who is the American Dream - or a nightmare of a Knight Mercantile." The Deejays is the first fut story of the tribal chieftains who manipulate possibly create popular taste with every spin of their timetable. It is also the history of the countrywide radio stations and the recording companies and their role in the extravaganza. The immense growth of radio in the United States since the Depression can be traced directly through the evolution of the deeiay who played records, interspersed with announcements of time, weather, and news, and most importantly peddled merchandise. In the beginning, they often spieled for dubious patent medicines or cut-rate clothing and furniture stores.