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This is an entirely new edition of the author’s 1984 study (originally published by South End Press) of radical media and movements. The first and second sections are original to this new edition. The first section explores social and cultural theory in order to argue that radical media should be a central part of our understanding of media in history. The second section weaves an historical and international tapestry of radical media to illustrate their centrality and diversity, from dance and graffiti to video and the internet and from satirical prints and street theatre to culture-jamming, subversive song, performance art and underground radio. The section also includes consideration of ultra-rightist media as a key contrast case. The book’s third section provides detailed case studies of the anti-fascist media explosion of 1974-75 in Portugal, Italy’s long-running radical media, radio and access video in the USA, and illegal media in the dissolution of the former Soviet bloc dictatorships.
KPFA, Berkeley, and Free Radio Berkeley
KPFA, Berkeley, and Free Radio Berkeley
KPFA was the first listener-supported independent1 station in the United States. Except for two breaks, the first from August 1950 to May 1951 and the second from July 14–21, 1999, it has broadcast every day since April 15, 1949.
Continuity, however, is only one of the features that distinguishes it from other local radio stations in the United States. In its early days, when the first Cold War and its ultimate expression, McCarthyism, were placing a rigid clamp on political criticism and independent thought, KPFA struck out in the opposite direction. It was, in a sense, an echo from the Roosevelt era and the hopes and optimism that period inspired in many politically committed and ...
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