"Media and cultural history at its best. Voice Over offers riveting accounts of the innovations, struggles, failures, and triumphs of black radio from its beginnings to the present. Barlow's unique perspective gives its personalities and institutions long-overdue credit for their pivotal role in changing the soundscape of American music and culture."
Herman Gray, author of Watching Race: Television and ... Read morethe Struggle for "Blackness" "The history of black radio, like the history of many black enterprises, starts with a fight simply to exist. That story takes up a good part of Voice Over, an extensive history that makes it clear this subject could fill a half-dozen books...Happily, nothing serves that kind of discussion as well as a sturdy foundation of history, and Voice Over tells its part of the story well." -New York Daily News "In the first book-length study of Pacifica Radio, Lasar recounts the history of 'our nation's only independent nonprofit [radio] network.' ...Lasar concentrates on the conflicted early years of Pacifica's development...useful as a behind-the-scenes account of Pacifica's growing pains." -Publishers Weekly Show Less