Lum and Abner: Rural America and the Golden Age of Radio (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813124698)

In the 1930s radio stations filled the airwaves with programs and musical performances about rural Americans-farmers and small-town residents struggling through the Great Depression. One of the most popular of these shows was Lum and Abner, the brainchild of Chester "Chet" Lauck and Norris "Tuffy" Goff, two young businessmen from Arkansas. Beginning in 1931 and lasting for more than two decades, the show revolved around the lives of ordinary people in the fictional community of Pine Ridge, based

Author: Randal L. Hall
ISBN-10: 0813124697
ISBN-13: 9780813124698
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 09/07/2007
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.35w x 1.01d