Primetime Blues
Subtitle: African Americans on Network Television
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: February 20, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780374527181
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.