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Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Describes the friendship and partnership between David Sarnoff, the head of RCA, and Edwin Armstrong, the developer of the first amplifier, and how they combined efforts to bring the FM transmitter and modern radio to society and forever change the world.
Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Breaks in the Air provides a social and cultural history of rap music on Black radio in New York City from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. Radio shows were crucial in the growth of hip hop in New York, and Klaess explores the intertwined histories of sounds, institutions, communities, and legal formations converging in that post-Civil Rights period. John Klaess offers a careful analysis of the city's three crucial commercial radio stations-WBLS-FM...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Legendary radio personality Bob Fass revolutionized the FM airwaves in the 1960s and '70s with his free-form program Radio unnameable, a cultural hub for music, politics, and audience engagement. For nearly 50 years, he has been heard at midnight on New York City listener-sponsored station WBAI, utilizing the airwaves for mobilization long before today's innovations in social media. Drawing from Fass's extraordinary personal archive of audio recordings,...
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Fully updated coverage of every topic on the latest version of the CompTIA Network+ exam This quick review, cram-style test preparation guide offers 100% coverage of all objectives for the current version of the challenging CompTIA Network+ exam. Written in the proven Passport format developed by training guru Mike Meyers, the book enables you to focus on specific topics, determine areas of need, and tailor an effective course for study. Mike Meyers'...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first "mass medium." In Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, Ken Burns examines the lives of three extraordinary men who shared the primary responsibility for this invention and its early success, and whose genius, friendship, rivalry and enmity interacted in tragic ways. This is the story of Lee de Forest, a clergyman's flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube;...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"John Lennon was a highly opinionated and controversial figure with a commanding personality and quick wit. He spoke candidly about his intense, sometimes tumultuous relationship with Yoko Ono, his split with the Beatles, his squabbles with Paul McCartney, and just about everything else, baring his emotional ups and downs for all to see. By the time he granted his-- and this book's-- final interview, only hours before his death, he had become one...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Transfigured New York presents conversations with iconic, genre-bending artists who shaped the sounds of experimental movements like no wave, avant-jazz, and electronic music. As an undergrad in the 1980s, Brooke Wentz hosted the show Transfigured Night on Columbia University's WKCR-FM, discussing art and ideas with avant-garde music luminaries. She unearths these candid interviews-heard before only when first broadcast-from cassettes and reel-to-reel...
Author
Publisher
Dpunkt Verlag
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Eltern nehmen im Zusammenhang mit WhatsApp, YouTube und Co. meist nur die negativen Schlagzeilen wahr. Die Ängste sehen etwa so aus: »Häufiger Internetkonsum macht süchtig, Kinder sind Cybermobbing und Betrügern ausgesetzt, sie werden eh nur abgezockt.« Online-Verbote für den Nachwuchs sind sicher keine gute Option, denn das lässt sich weder kontrollieren, noch wird es dem heutigen Mediennutzungsverhalten junger Menschen gerecht.Aufklärung...
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