Radio Fun and the BBC Variety Department, 1922-67

Comedy and Popular Music on Air
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-07069-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 416 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media

This book provides a narrative history of the BBC Radio Variety Department exploring, along chronological lines, the workings of, tensions within and the impact of BBC policies on the programme-making department which generated the organisation’s largest audiences. It provides an insight into key events, personalities, programmes, internal politics and trends in popular entertainment, censorship and anti-American policy as they individually or collectively affected the Department. Martin Dibbs examines how the Department's programmes became markers in the daily and weekly lives of millions of listeners, and helped shape the nation's listening habits when radio was the dominant source of domestic entertainment. The book explores events and topics which, while not directly forming part of the Variety Department’s history, nevertheless intersected with or had an impact on it. Such topics include the BBC’s attitude to jazz and rock and roll, the arrival of television with its impact on radio, the pirate radio stations, and the Popular Music and Gramophone Departments, both of whom worked closely with the Variety Department.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dibbs, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Fernsehen & Rundfunk
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One: Introduction.- Chapter Two: 1922-1933: Variety before Variety.- Chapter Three: 1933-1939: The Show Begins.- Chapter Four: 1939-1945: ‘We will be working under difficulties’.- Chapter Five: 1945-1955: A Golden Age for Radio Comedy.- Chapter Six: 1956-1967: Sound Into Vision: Popular Into Pop.- Chapter Seven: Coda.- Sources and Further Reading.- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Martin Dibbs is an independent scholar and freelance musician. His early education over the airwaves, courtesy of Lord Reith, stimulated a lifelong interest in British radio history. A Londoner by birth, he now lives in the East Neuk of Fife and is currently working on a book about jazz at the BBC.