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Primetime blues

Donald Bogle · 2001

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About the book

The author examines the role of African Americans on television from the postwar era of Amos 'n' Andy and Beulah to ER and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

First sentence: At the tail end of the Depression, a former blues singer, then appearing in a Broadway drama, was asked by the NBC radio network to perform on an experimental broadcast for a new medium.

Book details

Year
2001
Language
English
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Editions
3
Pages
448
ISBN
9780374527181

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