Rebels on the Air : An Alternative History of Radio in America / Jesse Walker.
Walker, Jesse, author.
2001
PN1991.3.U6 W35 2004
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Title Rebels on the Air : An Alternative History of Radio in America / Jesse Walker.
Author Walker, Jesse, author.
ISBN 9780814795187
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814795187.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2001]
Copyright ©2001
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9780814795187.001.0001 doi
Call Number PN1991.3.U6 W35 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 384.54/0973 384.540973
Summary Boring DJs who never shut up, and who don't even pick their own records. The same hits, over and over. A constant stream of annoying commercials. How did radio get so dull? Not by accident, contends journalist and historian Jesse Walker. For decades, government and big business have colluded to 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. Rebels on the Air explores these overlooked chapters in American radio, revealing the legal barriers established broadcasters have erected to ensure their dominance. Using lively anecdotes drawn from firsthand interviews, Walker chronicles the story of the unsung heroes of American radio who, despite those barriers, carved out spaces for themselves in the spectrum, sometimes legally and sometimes not. Walker's engaging, meticulous account is the first comprehensive history of alternative radio in the United States. 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, Walker lays bare the hidden history of broadcasting. Above all, Rebels on the Air is the story of the pirate broadcasters who shook up radio in the 1990sand 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.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Joe's Garage
2. The First Broadcasters
3. Siberia
4. The '60s
5. Into the '70s
6. Money from Washington
7. Free Radio Abroad
8. American Pirates
9. Micro Radio: Every Man a DJ
10. The FCC's Wars
11. CB, the Internet, and Beyond
Notes
Index
About the Author

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