At the tail end of the Depression, a former blues singer, then appearing in a Broadway drama, was asked by the NBC radio network to perform on an experimental broadcast for a new medium.
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The author examines the role of African Americans on television from the postwar era of Amos 'n' Andy and Beulah to ER and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
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Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television
2015, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
in English
1466894458 9781466894457
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Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television
February 20, 2002, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
0374527180 9780374527181
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Primetime blues: African Americans on network television
2001, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
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0374237204 9780374237202
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Primetime blues: African Americans on network television
2001, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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"At the tail end of the Depression, a former blues singer, then appearing in a Broadway drama, was asked by the NBC radio network to perform on an experimental broadcast for a new medium."
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