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 Guerrilla
Radio: Rock n' Roll Radio and Serbia's Underground Resistance
Matthew Collin
Rolling Stone writer romanticizes the battles of Belgrade's
B92 and its musical journey through Yugoslavia's revolution; better
narrative than analysis.
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 Border
Radio: Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing
Broadcasters of the American Airwaves
Gene Fowler
A whimsical trip through the strange world of the border blaster radio stations
and those sometimes-shady, never-dull people who owned and performed on them.
One of the best sources of information on this niche in radio history.
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 Rebels
on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America
Jesse Walker
A quick and relatively comprehensive history of alternative radio in America.
Contains chapters on the nascent microradio movement, the Pacifica saga, and
much more.
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 The
Radio Reader: Essays in the Cultural History of Radio
Michele Hilmes and Jason Loviglio
(editors)
While volumes have been written on the cultural impact of television in America,
not nearly enough attention has been turned on radio. The Radio Reader helps
to fill this valuable niche.
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 Rising
Up: Class Warfare in America from the Streets to the Airwaves (Direct
from Librad Press)
Richard Edmonson
An active participant in the modern American microradio movement has put pen
to paper, taking stock of the battle for free speech. A critically thoughtful
and entertaining read.
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 Microradio & Democracy:
Low Power to the People
Greg Ruggiero
Pamphlet on the pre-LPFM history of "modern" unlicensed broadcasting
in the United States, written by a member of the former Steal this Radio collective.
Read
Review
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 Access
to the Airwaves: My Fight for Free Radio
Allan H. Weiner and Anita McCormick
Autobiographical trek through the life and stations of one of America's most
prolific past pirates.
Read Review
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 Rebel
Radio: The Story of El Salvador's Radio Venceremos
Jose Ignacio Lopez Vigil
The true story behind the guerrilla radio station that helped challenge the American-backed
government in this Central American nation, told in the words of those who made
it happen.
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Radio
Papers: From KRAB to KCHU-Essays on the Art & Practice
of Radio Transmission
Lorenzo W. Milam
Ramblin' good entertainment from one of community radio's Johnny Appleseeds,
as printed in the program guides of the stations he started.
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