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

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    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."

    6. Radio comedy

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Wertheim, Arthur Frank (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    1979
    Published:
    USA: Oxford University Press, New York, New York.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28023
    Notes:
    439 pages.

    9. The electronic front porch: an oral history of the arrival of modern media in rural Appalachia and the Melungeon community

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Podber, Jacob J. (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    2007
    Published:
    USA: Mercer University Press, Macon, Georgia.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28671
    Notes:
    166 pages., Focuses on adoption, uses and potentials of radio, television and the Internet in that rural region.

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

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    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.

    12. The NBC Advisory Council and radio programming, 1926-1945

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Benjamin, Louise M. (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    2009
    Published:
    USA: Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29920
    Notes:
    156 pages., Includes information about establishment, operations and listenership of the National Farm and Home Hour.

    13. Farm journalism

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Jana, Balai Lal (author) and Mitra, Kanai Prasad (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    2005
    Published:
    India: Agrotech Pub. Academy, Adaipur, India
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29937
    Notes:
    376 pages.

    16. The hayloft gang: the story of the National Barn Dance

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Berry, Chad (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    USA: University of Illinois Press, Urbana.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C35871
    Notes:
    215 pages., Reports on the Natiional Barn Dance, a long-time, popular performance aired on WLS Radio, Chicago, Illinois, and nationally.

    20. Communicating in the agricultural industry

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Graves, Russell A. (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    2005
    Published:
    USA: Delmar, Centage Learning, Clifton Park, New York.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01730
    Notes:
    "As communicators, we are caretakers of an industry - one of the most important industries in the history of humankind. It is our duty as students and teachers of agriculture to learn, as efficiently and thoroughly as we can, the skills needed to tell a positive story about agriculture through words, pictures and Web site content. This book will help you in that goal." (p. xiii)

    28. Radio active: advertising and consumer activism, 1935-1947

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Newman, Kathy M. (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    2004
    Published:
    USA: University of California Press, Berkeley, California.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21622
    Notes:
    237 pages, Includes a description of "Consumer Time," a radio program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and produced by Donald E. Montgomery, consumer's counsel for USDA beginning in 1935. At that time, the USDA was the only government agency with an "official" position devoted to the concerns of the consumer. (p. 145). Another program, "Consumer Flashes," was part of the "National Farm and Home Hour" broadcast on NBC "Red" Network. Also includes (p. 47) statistics showing how lower-income listeners made up about 80% of the U.S. radio audience in 1940. Programs such as the "National Barn Dance" on WLS Radio, Chicago, were cited as especially popular.

    29. Technology transfer and communication

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Hancock, Alan (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    1984
    Published:
    International: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris, France.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22970
    Notes:
    Monographs on Communication Planning 4. 244 pages.

    31. The quieted voice: the rise and demise of localism in American radio

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Hilliard, Robert L. (author) and Keith, Michael C. (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    2005
    Published:
    USA: Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Illinois.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24025
    Notes:
    242 pages., Authors examine how "the short-term financial gains from consolidation in radio have resulted in the demise of local radio services to individual communities, concomitantly resulting in the not-so-long-term possible demise of radio itself."

    33. Prairie farmer and WLS - The Burridge D. Butler years

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Evans, James F. (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    1969
    Published:
    USA: University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 111 Document Number: C10788
    Notes:
    329 pages., Biography of Burridge D. Butler, owner of Prairie Farmer state farm paper, Radio Station WLS, Chicago, Illinois, and other media organizations in Arizona during his industrious career. Chronicles the history of these two major mass media organizations which he came to control early in the 1900s.

    34. Radio's beautiful day

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Crabb, Richard (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    1983
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 111 Document Number: C10798
    Journal Title Details:
    349 pages
    Notes:
    North Plains Press, Aberdeen, South Dakota 57401, 1983