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Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America
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by Jesse Walker
Sales Rank: 167127
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Cover Type: Paperback with 336 pages
Published by: NYU Press; New Ed edition June 1, 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0814793827
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0814793824
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 14.4 ounces
From Library Journal
Contemporary mainstream radio offers very little diversity; play lists are chosen in corporate offices, and stations across the country sound very similar. An associate editor for Reason magazine, Walker argues that government collusion with big business for decades is responsible for reducing variety and eliminating dissident voices in radio broadcasting. Opening his history of alternative radio with the amateur operators in the early 1900s, he shows that as soon as the first regulations were passed in the Radio Act of 1912, pirate stations began defying the rules. Walker de0ions that pushed the limits of radio broadcasting (both legally and illegally), documents the history of the Pacifica Foundation and the community radio movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and ends with some open questions about the future of micro radio and the potential of the Internet. The use of interviews and anecdotes brings life to this history. Both academics and radio enthusiasts will appreciate this book. Judy Solberg, George Washington Univ. Lib., Washington, DC
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to the
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edition.
Library Journal:
“Both academics and radio enthusiasts will appreciate this book.”
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America (Hardcover)
So many other radio 'history' books just tell you all about what programs were on which corporate network and which DJs were indicted for payola -- without bothering to explore how radio broadcasting came about, where the innovations came from, and how and why most of the current spectrum has become so bland in the last twenty years. Jesse Walker gets into all this and more: he gives just about the best and most complete history of radio broadcasting's *true* pioneers, from spark-gap to internet: the underground and alternative radio movement. I thought I knew a lot about the subject (at least regarding pre-1980 radio), but Walker's book has five times more in it than I even knew existed -- and extends right to the end of the 1990s. I highly recommend this book!
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