Rebels on the air : an alternative history of radio in America / Jesse Walker.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : New York University Press, c2001.Description: ix, 326 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0814793819
  • 0814793827
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 384.54/0973 21
LOC classification:
  • PN 1991 .3.U6 W35 2001
Contents:
Joe's garage -- The first broadcasters -- Siberia -The '60s -- Into the '70s -- Money from Washington -- Free radio abroad -- American pirates -- Micro radio: Every man a DJ -- The FCC's wars -- CB, the internet, and beyond --
Summary: "For decades government and big business have colluded the monopolize the airwaves, stamping out competition, reducing variety, and silencing dissident voices. And yet, in the face of such pressure, an alternative radio tradition has tenaciously survived. From the unlicensed amateurs who invented broadcasting to the community radio movement of the 1960s and 1970s, from the early days of FM to today's micro radio movement, Jesse Walker lays bare the hidden history of broadcasting. Above all, Rebels on the Air is the story of the pirate broadcaster who shook up radio in the 1990s -- and of the new sorts of radio we can expect in the next century as the microbroadcasters crossbreed with the even newer field of Internet broadcasting." From back of book
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BOOKS BOOKS Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks The Karen Lee Wald Collection PN 1991 .3.U6 W35 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan NPML22060009

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-312) and index.

Joe's garage -- The first broadcasters -- Siberia -The '60s -- Into the '70s -- Money from Washington -- Free radio abroad -- American pirates -- Micro radio: Every man a DJ -- The FCC's wars -- CB, the internet, and beyond --

"For decades government and big business have colluded the monopolize the airwaves, stamping out competition, reducing variety, and silencing dissident voices. And yet, in the face of such pressure, an alternative radio tradition has tenaciously survived. From the unlicensed amateurs who invented broadcasting to the community radio movement of the 1960s and 1970s, from the early days of FM to today's micro radio movement, Jesse Walker lays bare the hidden history of broadcasting. Above all, Rebels on the Air is the story of the pirate broadcaster who shook up radio in the 1990s -- and of the new sorts of radio we can expect in the next century as the microbroadcasters crossbreed with the even newer field of Internet broadcasting." From back of book

Gift of Karen Wald.

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