Active Radio: Pacifica's Brash ExperimentU of Minnesota Press, 1994 - 179 páginas 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 commercial mass media. A network of five stations (in Berkeley, Los Angeles, Houston, New York City, and Washington, D.C.), Pacifica has been a participant in nearly every progressive political movement of the past fifty years. The network has risked the loss of its licenses, had its transmitters bombed, seen its personnel arrested and jailed, and made errors of judgment and taste. Yet it has pioneered a number of media innovations, listener sponsorship and call-in radio among them. It has also made history: on Pacifica stations, Seymour Hersch 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 "Blowing 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 Using tape archives of radio programs, interviews with participants, and unpublished material on Pacifica, Land chronicles the turmoils and triumphs of this radio network that served as a model for National Public Radio and the Public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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 35
... Corporate Broadcasting 2. Lew Hill's Passion and the Origins of Pacifica 3. Listener-Sponsored Radicalism on KPFA 4. The Development of the Pacifica Network 11 27 39 63 5. Free Speech Radio 6. WBAI and the Explosion of Live Radio 7 ...
... Corporation . In 1926 , Cowles viewed advertis- ing as a threat to national security . If stations were to relinquish control over their programs to any paying sponsor , “ Bolshevist propaganda will have a better chance in this country ...
... corporate broad- casters needed to muster all their resources to convince the American listener and the U.S. ... corporate media.1 In his important work Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy, Robert McChesney has argued that the ...
... corporate media was but a faint echo. Chapter 2 provides an overview of twentieth-century pacifism, the political vision that gave the network its name and ideals. The oldest dissident movement available for study and moral guidance ...
... corporation, to promote the study of political and eco- nomic problems and causes of religious and philosophical antagonisms.4 This yearning to diffuse the material and ideological antagonisms leading to war was and remains the center ...
Contenido
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1 The Rise of Corporate Broadcasting | 11 |
2 Lew Hills Passion and the Origins of Pacifica | 27 |
3 ListenerSponsored Radicalism on KPFA | 39 |
4 The Development of the Pacifica Network | 63 |
5 Free Speech Radio | 91 |
6 WBAI and the Explosion of Live Radio | 113 |
7 Beloved Community | 133 |
Conclusion | 143 |
Notes | 149 |
Bibliography | 161 |
Pacifica Programs | 169 |
Index | 173 |