Elvis Presley's television debut in January 1956 is often cited as the moment when popular music and television came together. Murray Forman challenges that contention, revealing popular music as crucial to television years before Presley's sensational small-screen performances. Drawing on trade and popular journalism, internal television and music industry documents, and records of audience feedback, Forman provides a detailed history of the incorporation of musical performances into TV programming during the medium's formative years, from 1948 to 1955. He examines how executives in the...
Elvis Presley's television debut in January 1956 is often cited as the moment when popular music and television came together. Murray Forman challenge...
Explores the full range of popular music from show tunes to Latin in a wide variety of television programs, and shows how the standards of presentation and performance developed
Explores the full range of popular music from show tunes to Latin in a wide variety of television programs, and shows how the standards of presentatio...
