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Illustrations

Figure I.1: Neil Postman, one of the fathers of Media Ecology.

Figure 1.1: Marlon Brando, as an endearing delinquent in the 1953 film The Wild One.

Figure 1.2: Bill Haley and His Comets still rocking around the clock in 1960.

Figure 2.1: The Treniers in Don’t Knock the Rock. They were frequently on TV in the pre-rock era, but were not perceived as a threat.

Figure 2.2: Don Cornelius with Curtis Mayfield in the early Chicago days on Soul Train. Cornelius made Black Americans visible on television.

Figure 3.1: The 1950s American family gets programmed.

Figure 3.2: “Professor” Chuck Berry sings “School Days” on American Bandstand.

Figure 4.1: The music goes round and round and comes out here: The Regency, “the world’s first pocket radio.”

Figure 4.2: Les Paul trades riffs with his wife Mary Ford on The Colgate Comedy Hour.

Figure 5.1: On TV, the eye wins the sensory battle between sight and sound.

Figure 5.2: Marshall McLuhan tries to explain Media Ecology to Tom Snyder on The Tomorrow Show.←ix | x→

Figure 6.1: Carl Perkins and Perry Como—two nice guys on The Perry Como Show.

Figure 6.2: Johnny Otis, the great impresario of Los Angeles rhythm ‘n’ blues.

Figure 7.1: Elvis Presley on The Steve Allen Show. Putting Elvis in a tuxedo wasn’t enough; he had to sing to a basset hound.

Figure 7.2: Dewey Phillips and Harry Fritzius: for a short time in 1957, rock was alive on WHBQ-TV in Memphis.

Figure 8.1: Bo Diddley on The Ed Sullivan Show as part of 1955 Dr. Jive Revue special.

Figure 8.2: Ed Sullivan certifies that Elvis Presley is “a real decent, fine boy.”

Figure 9.1: Dick Clark: Selling chewing gum and rock ‘n’ roll to a nation.

Figure 9.2: The Archies, Don Kirshner’s cartoon rockers—more pliable than humans.

Figure 10.1: Chubby Checker doing the twist in It’s Trad, Dad, Richard Lester’s first feature film.

Figure 10.2: Ray Davies of The Kinks on Beat Room—every day he looks at the world through his window.

Figure 11.1: Jack Good sporting his British bowler in 1964 on Shindig! (ABC 1964–66): no one ever treated rock ‘n’ roll on TV with more respect.

Figure 11.2: White teens get their first dose of James Brown on The T.A.M.I. Show.

Figure 11.3: The Beatles are attentive on their fourth appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.

Figure 12.1: The Supremes as singing nuns on Tarzan telling the locals that “the Lord helps those that help themselves.”

Figure 12.2: Chuck Berry on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

Figure 12.3: The Monkees were made for TV.

Figure 13.1: Keyboard royalty: Little Richard, Count Basie, Ray Charles, and Jerry Lee Lewis. Little Richard turns the Grammy Awards into a tent revival.

Figure 13.2: Michael Jackson in all innocence on the MTV Video Music Awards.

Figure 14.1: Frank Zappa: “I hate to see anyone with a closed mind on any topic.”←x | xi→