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The Eights | 1948 in TV, Music and 'Consensus Culture'
Robert Thompson, founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture and trustee professor of media studies at Syracuse University, takes a look back at how the role of television in cultural hegemony and the cultural divides in music in 1948.