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 Using tape archives of radio programs, interviews with participants, and unpublished material on Pacifica, Land chronicles the turmoils and triumphs of this radio network that served as a model for National Public Radio and the Public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. |
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... Radio 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 ...
... station own- ers had united in their appreciation of the opportunity radio provided for enticing “ the most numerous and attentive audience ever assembled ... in the quiet and in- timate atmosphere of the home [ , ] reached by the most ...
... radio station to the pacifist movement of which they were a part in the 1940s . A second lacuna is the brevity of my discussions of the music , drama , and po- etry that from the origins to this day remain the greatest part of the ...
... radio station distinguished by its candor, the unique quality of its programs, and its freedom from commercials. —KPFA Folio, August 1951, read on the program “KPFA's Sixteenth Birthday” Active Radio begins with the early history of ...
... radio station in 1943, Hill lamented the media's conspiracy of silence, entertain- ing and distracting rather than educating the public during and after World War II. How, he and his pacifist comrades wondered, might radio be deployed ...
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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 |