Advertising Revolutionary

The Life and Work of Tom Burrell

Jason P. Chambers (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2024
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08764-6 (ISBN)

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The ad exec who revolutionized the image of Black Americans in advertising Over a forty-year career, Chicagoan Tom Burrell changed the face of advertising and revolutionized the industry’s approach to African Americans as human beings and consumers. Jason P. Chambers offers a biography of the groundbreaking creator and entrepreneur that explores Burrell’s role in building brands like McDonald’s and Coca-Cola within a deeply felt vision of folding positive images of Black people into mainstream American life. While detailing Burrell’s successes, Chambers tells a parallel story of what Burrell tried to do that sheds light on the motivations of advertising creators who viewed their work as being about more than just selling. Chambers also highlights how Burrell used his entrepreneurial gifts to build an agency that opened the door for Black artists, copywriters, directors, and other professionals to earn livings, build careers, and become leaders within the industry.

Compelling and multidimensional, Advertising Revolutionary combines archival research and interviews with Burrell and his colleagues to provide a long overdue portrait of an advertising industry legend and his times.

Jason P. Chambers is an associate professor of advertising at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Madison Avenue and the Color Line: African Americans in the Advertising Industry and coeditor of Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago.

Acknowledgments Introduction

Growing Up in Chicago
Into the Advertising Industry
Burrell-McBain Advertising
Finding Solid Footing
The Burrell Agency
First in the Nation
Overcoming a Crisis
The Final Years

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Erscheinungsdatum	17.01.2024
Zusatzinfo	10 black & white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	481 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb
ISBN-10	0-252-08764-X / 025208764X
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08764-6 / 9780252087646
Zustand	Neuware