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 Using tape archives of radio programs, interviews with participants, and unpublished material on Pacifica, Land chronicles the turmoils and triumphs of this radio network that served as a model for National Public Radio and the Public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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... social justice , international solidarity , personal transformation , and cre- ative expression for five decades . Through its engagement with the culture and politics of the postwar world , the network has invited alliances with nearly ...
... social movements worldwide , and live performances of contemporary musical , poetic , and dramatic compositions the network has pre- sented . It has pioneered a number of media innovations : listener sponsorship , the use of the FM band ...
... social justice and civil liberties, and an abiding personal taste for avant-garde culture into the basis for daily radio programming. Through the responsible use of broadcasting, the men and women who established the Pacifica Foundation ...
... social movements of every persuasion clamored for increased access to WBAI's well - respected , widely heard microphone , all in the name of serving specific communities of listeners . In Hill's original vision , democratic broadcasting ...
... social praxis forged a new form of broadcasting.8 Within its historical narrative, Active Radio strives less for an exhaustive treatment of all the turmoil and triumphs of these years than for a distillation of the significance of the ...
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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 |