{"id":56474,"date":"2022-09-12T03:01:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T03:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=56474"},"modified":"2022-09-10T11:49:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T11:49:56","slug":"new-book-radio-psychics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/09\/12\/new-book-radio-psychics\/","title":{"rendered":"New book: Radio Psychics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Possibly of interest to those looking into the historical context for Lovecraft&#8217;s &#8220;Nyarlathotep&#8221; (1920), a new McFarland book <em>Radio Psychics: Mind Reading and Fortune Telling in American Broadcasting, 1920\u20131940<\/em>. Apparently not well written, according to one review. But it seems snappy enough in the Google Books excerpts I can obtain, and looks well researched.<\/p>\n<p>April 1919 was when &#8220;the restrictions were lifted&#8221; on U.S. commercial radio, and it then seems to have been something of a free-for-all? The book also notes early phonograph records in the hypnosis line&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fitzgibbons had been the first to think of making a &#8220;hypnotic record\u201d one could play on one\u2019s phonograph, in order to induce hypnosis (&#8220;&#8216;Hypnotic Record\u2019 Brings Out One&#8217;s Latent Genius&#8221;, <em>Talking Machine World<\/em> 15.6 (15th June 1919)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/nyarcomic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/nyarcomic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"882\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/nyarcomic.jpg 652w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/nyarcomic-528x882.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Possibly of interest to those looking into the historical context for Lovecraft&#8217;s &#8220;Nyarlathotep&#8221; (1920), a new McFarland book Radio Psychics: &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/09\/12\/new-book-radio-psychics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-new-books","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56474"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56501,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56474\/revisions\/56501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}