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Description for Active Radio
Paperback. Series: Commerce & Mass Culture. Num Pages: 184 pages, 11 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APW; HBJK; HBLW3; JFC; KNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 200.
The essential book on the origins of the influential Pacifica radio network, in time for its fiftieth anniversary.
In April 1949, KPFA in Berkeley, California, went on the air. From the beginning, the station broadcast an utterly new combination of political commentary and cultural discussion that reflected founder Lewis Hill’s vision of a radio station dedicated to creative expression and dissent. In this fascinating account, Jeff Land tells the heroic story of the Pacifica radio network, exploring not only its role in the culture and politics of the postwar world but also the practical model it pioneered for liberatory alternatives to ... Read more
A network of five stations (in Berkeley, Los Angeles, Houston, New York City, and Washington, D.C.), Pacifica has been actively involved in nearly every progressive political movement of the past fifty years. The network has risked the loss of its licenses and made errors of judgment and taste; its transmitters were bombed; its personnel have been arrested and jailed. Yet it pioneered a number of media innovations, listener sponsorship and call-in radio among them. It has made history: on Pacifica stations, Seymour Hersh broke the My Lai story; the FBI’s illegal internal surveillance program was first publicly revealed; the Firesign Theater gave its first performance; and Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” made its public debut. Using tape archives of radio programs, interviews with participants, and unpublished material on Pacifica, Land chronicles the turmoils and triumphs of this radio network that served as a model for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting System. Rich in anecdote, Active Radio is both an engaging account of Pacifica’s past and an assessment of its significance to postwar culture in the United States. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Series
Commerce & Mass Culture
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816631575
SKU
V9780816631575
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Jeffrey Land
Jeff Land, a longtime activist in grassroots ecological politics, has taught at the secondary and university levels since 1979.
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