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Kamp, David.
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Children's television programs -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Television programs -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Kamp, David.
Children's television programs -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Television programs -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
MARC Display
Sunny days : the
children
's
television
revolution that changed America / David Kamp ; foreword by Questlove.
by
Kamp, David.
Simon & Schuster, 2020.
Call #:
791.4575 K157s
Subjects
Children
's
television
programs
--
United
States
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Television
programs
--
Social aspects
--
United
States
--
History
--
20th
century
.
ISBN:
9781501137808 (hc.)
Edition:
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Description:
xxii, 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"In 1970, in soundstage on Manhattan'
s
Upper West Side, a group of men and women of various ages and races met to finish the first season of a
children
's TV program. They had identified a social problem: poor
children
were entering kindergarten without the learning skills of their middle-class counterparts. They hoped, too, that they had identified a solution: to use
television
to better prepare these disadvantaged kids for school. No one knew then, but this
children
's TV program would go on to start a cultural revolution. It was called Sesame Street. Sesame Street was part of a larger movement that saw media professionals and thought leaders leveraging their influence to help
children
learn. A year and a half earlier, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood premiered. Fast on its heels came Schoolhouse Rock!, a video series dreamed up by Madison Avenue admen to teach kids times tables, civics, and grammatical rules, and Free to Be... You and Me, the TV star Marlo Thomas's audacious multi-pronged campaign (it was first a record album, and then a book and a
television
special) to instill the concept of gender equality in young minds. There was more:
programs
such as The Electric Company, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, ZOOM, and others followed, and captivated young viewers. In Sunny Days, bestselling author David Kamp takes readers behind the scenes to show how these
programs
made it on air. He draws on hundreds of hours of interviews from the creators and participants of these programs-among them Joan Ganz Cooney, Lloyd Morrisett, Newton Minow, Sonia Manzano, Loretta Long, Bob McGrath, Marlo Thomas, and Rita Moreno-as well as archival research. Kamp explains how these like-minded individuals found their way into
television
, not as fame- or money-hungry would-be auteurs and stars, but as people who wanted to use TV to help
children
. This is both a fun and fascinating story, and a masterful work of cultural
history
. Sunny Days captures a period in
children
's
television
where enlightened progressivism prevailed, and shows how this period changed the lives of millions. Nothing had ever happened like this before, Kamp forcefully and eloquently argues, and nothing has ever happened like it since"--From publisher.
Other authors:
Questlove.
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