Search

    Start Over Collection Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC) Subject Term history Subject Term radio programs Subject Term rural people

    1. "The more they listen, the more they buy": radio and the modernizing of rural America, 1930-1939

    <span class="translation_missing" title="translation missing: en.bibleaves.discover_item">Discover Item</span>
    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Craig, Steve (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2006
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24378
    Journal Title:
    Agricultural History
    Journal Title Details:
    80(1) : 1-16
    Notes:
    Emphasizes the impact of entertainment programming and advertising on the buying behavior of rural listeners.

    2. 50th anniversary of the Farm Radio Forum

    <span class="translation_missing" title="translation missing: en.bibleaves.discover_item">Discover Item</span>
    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Canadian Broadcasting
    Format:
    Script
    Publication Date:
    1993-06-18
    Published:
    Canada
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 174 Document Number: C29538
    Notes:
    From CBC Morningside via Don Snowden Program for Development Communication. 6 pages., Exerpt from a CBC interview with Simon Halaghan, long-time member of the Farm Radio Forum.

    3. A good-natured riot: the birth of the Grand Ole Opry

    <span class="translation_missing" title="translation missing: en.bibleaves.discover_item">Discover Item</span>
    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Wolfe, Charles K. (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    1999
    Published:
    USA: Country Music Foundation Press and Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, Tennessee.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28690
    Notes:
    312 pages., Features the Grand Ole Opry program on Radio Station WSM, Nashville, Tennessee.

    4. Daniel Starch's 1928 survey: a first glimpse of the U.S. radio audience

    <span class="translation_missing" title="translation missing: en.bibleaves.discover_item">Discover Item</span>
    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Craig, Steve (author)
    Format:
    Report
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 180 Document Number: C36355
    Notes:
    28 pages., Manuscript later published under the same title in the Journal of Radio and Audio Media, 17(2) : 182-194 (November 2010).

    5. Early broadcasting and rural audiences

    <span class="translation_missing" title="translation missing: en.bibleaves.discover_item">Discover Item</span>
    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Smulyan, Susan (author)
    Format:
    Book chapter
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C35875
    Notes:
    Pages 119-129 in Chad Berry (ed.), The hayloft gang: the story of the National Barn Dance. University of Illinois Press, Urbana. 215 pages.

    8. Lum and Abner: rural America and the golden age of radio

    <span class="translation_missing" title="translation missing: en.bibleaves.discover_item">Discover Item</span>
    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Hall, Randal L. (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    2007
    Published:
    USA: University of Kentucky Press, Lexington.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27737
    Notes:
    255 pages., Focuses on a popular radio comedy series that was broadcast from 1931 until 1954. "The show is a rare example of a lasting national network program on rural themes."

    9. Mail order radios: receiver evolution in the pages of the Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward catalogs, 1920-1950

    <span class="translation_missing" title="translation missing: en.bibleaves.discover_item">Discover Item</span>
    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Craig, Steve (author)
    Format:
    Paper
    Publication Date:
    2004-04
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 180 Document Number: C36352
    Notes:
    Presented to the Radio Interest Group, Popular Culture Association convention, San Antonio, Texas, April 2004. 14 pages.