Live from the Underground (eBook)

A History of College Radio

Katherine Rye Jewell (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
480 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-7621-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Bands like R.E.M., U2, Public Enemy, and Nirvana found success as darlings of college radio, but the extraordinary influence of these stations and their DJs on musical culture since the 1970s was anything but inevitable. As media deregulation and political conflict over obscenity and censorship transformed the business and politics of culture, students and community DJs turned to college radio to defy the mainstreamand they ended up disrupting popular music and commercial radio in the process. In this first history of US college radio, Katherine Rye Jewell reveals that these eclectic stations in major cities and college towns across the United States owed their collective cultural power to the politics of higher education as much as they did to upstart bohemian music scenes coast to coast.Jewell uncovers how battles to control college radio were about more than musicthey were an influential, if unexpected, front in the nation's culture wars. These battles created unintended consequences and overlooked contributions to popular culture that students, DJs, and listeners never anticipated. More than an ode to beloved stations, this book will resonate with both music fans and observers of the politics of culture.

Autor

Katherine Rye Jewell is professor of history at Fitchburg State University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.12.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 12 halftones, 2 tables
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Alternative Rock • College radio • college rock • Community Radio • educational radio • Federal Communications Commission • freeform radio • higher education • history of public broadcasting • Indie Rock • KAOS (Evergreen State University) • KCSB (UCSB) • KLA (UCLA) • KTRU (Rice University) • major label music industry • national public radio • Nirvana • Parents Music Resource Council • popular music and censorship • Public Enemy • radio formats • R.E.M. • Sub Pop Records • the Replacements • U2 • underground hip-hop • WBAU (Adelphi University) • WMBR (MIT) • WRVU (Vanderbilt University) • WUOB (University of Georgia)
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-7621-4 / 1469676214
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-7621-0 / 9781469676210