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WBCN and the American Revolution: How a Radio Station Defined Politics, Counterc
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- 9780262046251
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- 9780262046251
- Book Title
- WBCN and the American Revolution : How a Radio Station Defined Politics, Counterculture, and Rock and Roll
- Item Length
- 11.3 in
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Music, History, Performing Arts
- Topic
- Radio / History & Criticism, History & Criticism, United States / 20th Century
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- 10.5 in
- Item Weight
- 57.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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How Boston radio station WBCN became the hub of the rock-and-roll, antiwar, psychedelic solar system. While San Francisco was celebrating a psychedelic Summer of Love in 1967, Boston stayed buttoned up and battened down. But that changed the following year, when a Harvard Law School graduate student named Ray Riepen founded a radio station that played music that young people, including the hundreds of thousands at Boston-area colleges, actually wanted to hear. WBCN-FM featured album cuts by such artists as the Mothers of Invention, Aretha Franklin, and Cream, played by announcers who felt free to express their opinions on subjects that ranged from recreational drugs to the war in Vietnam. In this engaging and generously illustrated chronicle, Peabody Award-winning journalist and one-time WBCN announcer Bill Lichtenstein tells the story of how a radio station became part of a revolution in youth culture. At WBCN, creativity and countercultural politics ruled- there were no set playlists; news segments anticipated the satire of The Daily Show; on-air interviewees ranged from John and Yoko to Noam Chomsky; a telephone "Listener Line" fielded questions on any subject, day and night. From 1968 to Watergate, Boston's WBCN was the hub of the rock-and-roll, antiwar, psychedelic solar system. A cornucopia of images in color and black and white includes concert posters, news clippings, photographs of performers in action, and scenes of joyousness on Boston CommonInterwoven through the narrative are excerpts from interviews with WBCN pioneers, including Charles Laquidara, the "news dissector" Danny Schechter, Marsha Steinberg, and Mitchell Kertzman. Lichtenstein's documentary WBCN and the American Revolution is available as a DVD sold separately.
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MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262046253
ISBN-13
9780262046251
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9050025706
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Book Title
WBCN and the American Revolution : How a Radio Station Defined Politics, Counterculture, and Rock and Roll
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Radio / History & Criticism, History & Criticism, United States / 20th Century
Publication Year
2021
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Music, History, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
304 Pages
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Item Length
11.3 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
10.5 in
Item Weight
57.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn1991.67.M86l53
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Winner of the Courage to Dream Book Prize, Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 2022.
Table of Content
Foreword by Charles Laquidara ix Foreword by Ty Burr xi Foreword by Louis Menand xiii Preface xv 1 Boston 1967: Before the Revolution 1 2 The Boston Tea Party 13 3 Ugly Radio Is Dead 35 4 A New Kind of Radio 53 5 1968: The Year That Everything Changed and that Changed Everything 61 6 WBCN and the American Revolution 77 7 Campus Unrest 91 8 Peace Is in the Air 111 9 WBCN: The Hub of the Community and the Soundtrack of the City 127 10 WBCN News and Public Affairs 149 11 The News Dissector 161 12 The Second Wave 179 13 The Lavender Hour : Gender Freedom in the Air 197 14 Lock-up 207 15 We've Got to Get Rid of Nixon 213 16 Rock and Roll Future 233 17 Fifty Stories above Boston 257 18 Nixon's Resignation and the End of the Revolution 265 19 Lessons Learned 277 Acknowledgments 282 Index 285
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Trade
Lccn
2021-011596
Dewey Decimal
384.54530974461
Dewey Edition
23
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