Lum and Abner: Rural America and the Golden Age of Radio

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
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 09/07/2007
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.35w x 1.01d
ISBN: 9780813124698

About the Author
Hall, Randal L.: - Randal L. Hall is managing editor of the Journal of Southern History and adjunct associate professor of history at Rice University. He is the author or editor of several books, including Lum and Abner: Rural America and the Golden Age of Radio. He is also the coeditor of Seeing Jefferson Anew: In His Time and Ours and Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America.

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