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Our program tonight is presented in honor of black History Month for the purposes of Public Education and civil discourse. And our guests are to american historians. Our keynote speaker is a historian of television, radio and the Recording Industry in the united states, a former network and Cable Television executive, and the author of nine books. Tim brooks. His talk tonight is based on his newest publication, the blackface minstrel show in mass media 20th century performances on radio, records, film and television. Recently published by mcfarland. Among tims many accomplishments is a grammy ...

Media, 20th century performances on radio, records, film, and television recently published by mcfarland. Among his many accomplishments is a grammy award which he received for a double cd and bro book titled lost sounds. 1890 to 1919. Tim will then be joined in a conversation by fellow historian bill dugget. Our program will conclude with tim and bill taking questions from you, our live audience. Now, please turn off the sounds of your phones, and join me in welcoming historian and author tim brooks. [ applause ] well, thank you. Later on as he mentioned, there will be time for questions. And...

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Well, tim, the attention mar chants, the ethics scramble to get inside our head. Historical perspective going way back to the early days of newspapers. What inspired you to dive in this way and go so far back to track how our taeattention is getting captured . I believe its by history and it came to me that writing this book or the reason was i noticed how much of our life is driven by models. It used to be just either the media or newspapers, things like that. Google, facebook, all of the internet sites, but i also think i had this experience which may be other people have had as well where i...

Guy they put away [inaudible] [laughter] thank you. [inaudible] youre watching booktv on cspan2 television for serious readsers heres prime time tonight we kick off with hills dale College Professors discuss their long friendship with a former death row inmate. And at 8 suzanne quin reports on 30year relationship between first Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Associated Press reporter lour at 9 p. M. Eastern james rosen talks about a torch kept lit. Essays written by f. Buckley and at 10 on booktv afterwards program, tim wu provides history of advertising and its current use. We wrap up booktv in pr...