Right Here on Our Stage Tonight!: Ed Sullivan's America - Hardcover

Nachman, Gerald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520258673 ISBN 13: 9780520258679

Verlag: University of California Press, 2009

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Book by Nachman Gerald

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"A memory-lane extravaganza, smart, witty and finely researched."--San Francisco Chronicle "A fun, affectionate portrayal of the showman. A long time in coming, it's the tome that Sullivan always deserved."--Playbill "A vivid, discerning portrayal of American history through the lens of popular culture."--Publishers Weekly "This work is a 'don't miss' of nostalgia."--Wowowow.com "An amusing, anecdote-rich book... It's full of 'remember when' moments ranging from the bizarre to the insulting."--The Calgary Herald

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Before the advent of cable and its hundreds of channels, before iPods and the Internet, three television networks ruled America's evenings. And for twenty-three years, Ed Sullivan, the Broadway gossip columnist turned awkward emcee, ruled Sunday nights. It was Sullivan's genius to take a worn-out stage genre-vaudeville-and transform it into the TV variety show, a format that was to dominate for decades. "Right Here on Our Stage Tonight!" tells the complete saga of "The Ed Sullivan Show" and, through the voices of some 60 stars interviewed for the book, brings to life the most beloved, diverse, multi-cultural, and influential variety hour ever to air. Gerald Nachman takes us through those years, from the earliest dog acts and jugglers to Elvis Presley, the Beatles, and beyond. Sullivan was the first TV impresario to feature black performers on a regular basis - including Nat King Cole, Pearl Bailey, James Brown, and Richard Pryor - challenging his conservative audience and his own traditional tastes, and changing the face of American popular culture along the way. No other TV show ever cut such a broad swath through our national life or cast such a long shadow, nor has there ever been another show like it. Nachman's compulsively readable history, illustrated with classic photographs and chocked with colorful anecdotes, reanimates "The Ed Sullivan Show" for a new generation.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0520258673
• ISBN 13: 9780520258679
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 472