One night on TV is worth weeks at the Paramount
Subtitle: popular music on early television
By: Murray Forman
Series: Console-ing passions: television and cultural power; Console-ing passions
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780822349983; 9780822350118
Subjects: Popular music; Television broadcasting of music; Television and music; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Popular music and the small screen frontier; title: Music, image, labor: televisionSpre-history; title: "Hey TV!": musical pioneers and pessimists; title: Harmonizing genres; title: The look of music; title: Music in a sepia tone; title: Maracas, congas, and castanets; title: Conclusion: rocking the tv conventions.