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286- A 700-Foot Mountain of Whipped Cream
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Length:
54 minutes
Released:
Nov 28, 2017
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Podcast episode
Description
While the 1960s shift in print and TV advertising has been heavily documented and mythologized by Mad Men, Madison Avenue’s radiophonic collision with the counterculture is less well known. A radio advertising producer, writer, and composer, Clive Desmond takes listeners on a highly subjective journey through one narrow, eccentric, corridor of radio advertising. Here, he has rescued beautiful forgotten nuggets of radio history and delicately arranged them into a glittering associative chain—a constellation of jingles and spots that somehow all add up to more. A version of episode was originally featured on The Organist, a bi-weekly experimental arts-and-culture program from McSweeney's and KCRW.
A 700-Foot Mountain of Whipped Cream
A 700-Foot Mountain of Whipped Cream
Released:
Nov 28, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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