Black Radio/Black Resistance: The Life & Times of the Tom Joyner Morning Show

by Micaela di Leonardo

Book Overview

Every weekday, the wildly popular Tom Joyner Morning Show reaches more than eight million radio listeners. The show offers broadly progressive political talk, adult-oriented soul music, humor, advice, and celebrity gossip for largely older, largely working-class black audience. But it's not just an old-school show: it's an activist political forum and a key site reflecting on popular aesthetics. It focuses on issues affecting African Americans today,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190870184
• ISBN13: 9780190870188
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"