Radio Psychics by John Benedict Buescher

Here, laid out for the first time, is the tale of how they made cash rain from the heavens and harnessed the sensation of the radio in search of wealth, health, love, and success. This book is a history of over 25 performers who practiced their art behind studio microphones during the early years of radio broadcasting, from about 1920 to 1940. Author: John Benedict Buescher Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476684650 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 433.

By : John Benedict Buescher Performing Arts Radio Psychics. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format. Casting their mystical knowledge as a scientifically honed craft, these mentalists persuaded millions to pay for dubious advice until governmental and public pressures forced them off the air. Access full book title Radio Psychics by John Benedict Buescher. These “mentalists,” born from vaudeville, circuses, sideshows, and the Spiritualist and New Thought movements of the mid-late 19th century, used the language of wireless technology to explain their ability to see the past, present, and future. : Radio Psychics: Mind Reading and Fortune Telling in American Broadcasting, 1920-1940 (9781476684659) by Buescher, John Benedict and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Performers claiming psychic powers turned radio broadcasting into a fabulous money machine. Some thought it would dissolve the distance between time and place, others that human minds would become transparent, one tuned to another. When radio broadcasting began in the early 1920s, the radio was a magic box aglow with the future, drawing humanity into a new age.