Book Description
Vita.
Author : Gene R. Stebbins
Publisher :
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 14,73 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Educational broad casting
ISBN :
Vita.
Author : Matthew Lasar
Publisher : Black Apollo Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 32,64 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Alternative radio broadcasting
ISBN : 1900355450
"Uneasy listening tells the story of the epic battle over five listener-supported radio stations that rocked the American Left and raised difficult questions about public broadcasting in the United States that have yet to be answered"--P. [4] of cover.
Author : Matthew Lasar
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 2000-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781566397773
In the public radio landscape, the Pacifica stations stand out as inn0ovators of diverse and controversial broadcasting. Pacifica's fifty years of struggle against social and political conformity began with a group of young men and women who hoped to change the world with a credo of non-violence. Pacifica Radio traces the cultural and political currents that shaped the first listener-supported radio station, KPFA FM in Berkeley, and accompanied Pacifica's gradual expansion into a 5 station network. In this expanded paperback edition, Lasar provides a postscript ("A Crisis of Containment") that examines the external pressures and organizational problems within the Pacifica Foundation that led, in early 1999, to the police shutdown of network station KPFA. Lasar, an admittedly pro-KPFA partisan in the conflict, gives a first-person account, calling it "the worst crisis in the history of community radio." Yet Pacifica Radio is about more than just the network's recent troubles. It is the story of visionary Lewis Hill and the small band of pacifists who in 1946, set out to build institutions that would promote dialogue between individuals and nations. KPFA took to the air in 1949 with stunningly unconventional programs that challenged the dreary cultural consensus of the Cold War. No one in the Bay Area, or anywhere else, had heard anything like it on the airwaves. The first edition of Pacifica Radio, which made the San Francisco Chronicle's non-fiction bestseller list, was praised as "fascinating reading" by In These Times, "Lasar has an eye for paradox, irony and contradiction," wrote the Santa Rose Press Democrat, "but he is first and foremost an able and astute historian."
Author : Ralph Engelman
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 21,44 MB
Release : 1996-04-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1452246610
The origins and evolution of the major insititutions in the United States for noncommercial radio and television are explored in this unique volume. Ralph Engelman examines the politics behind the development of National Public Radio, Radio Pacifica and the Public Broadcasting Service. He traces the changing social forces that converged to launch and shape these institutions from the Second World War to the present day. The book challenges several commonly held beliefs - including that the mass media is simply a manipulative tool - and concludes that public broadcasting has an enormous potential as an emancipatory vehicle.
Author : Rachel Lee Rubin
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 14,12 MB
Release : 2014-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1479859729
The Renaissance Faire—a 50 year-long party, communal ritual, political challenge and cultural wellspring—receives its first sustained historical attention with Well Met. Beginning with the chaotic communal moment of its founding and early development in the 1960s through its incorporation as a major “family friendly” leisure site in the 2000s, Well Met tells the story of the thinkers, artists, clowns, mimes, and others performers who make the Faire. Well Met approaches the Faire from the perspective of labor, education, aesthetics, business, the opposition it faced, and the key figures involved. Drawing upon vibrant interview material and deep archival research, Rachel Lee Rubin reveals the way the faires established themselves as a pioneering and highly visible counter cultural referendum on how we live now—our family and sexual arrangements, our relationship to consumer goods, and our corporate entertainments. In order to understand the meaning of the faire to its devoted participants,both workers and visitors, Rubin has compiled a dazzling array of testimony, from extensive conversations with Faire founder Phyllis Patterson to interviews regarding the contemporary scene with performers, crafters, booth workers and “playtrons.” Well Met pays equal attention what came out of the faire—the transforming gifts bestowed by the faire’s innovations and experiments upon the broader American culture: the underground press of the 1960s and 1970s, experimentation with “ethnic” musical instruments and styles in popular music, the craft revival, and various forms of immersive theater are all connected back to their roots in the faire. Original, intrepid, and richly illustrated, Well Met puts the Renaissance Faire back at the historical center of the American counterculture.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1938 pages
File Size : 20,69 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Copyright
ISBN :
Author : Jeff Land
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 39,86 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780816631575
In a searing critique of the War on Drugs and other attempts to eradicate "getting high, " Lenson ventures outside the conventional genres of drug writing and looks at the drug debate from a lost, and often forbidden, point of view: the user's. Walking a fine line between the antidrug hysteria prevalent in our culture and an uncritical advocacy of drug use, he describes in provocative detail the experiences and dynamics of drugs of pleasure and desire.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary
Publisher :
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 1963
Category :
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 32,32 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Communism
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 25,41 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Radio broadcasting
ISBN :
Investigates allegedly subversive activities of Pacifica Foundation owned radio stations.